Employers should be required by law to take up the wage retention scheme for 3 months during this pandemic. This is particularly applicable to industries directly affected, such as aviation or those employers stating financial security or loss due to the virus, as some employers.
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Employers are still afraid of the length of this pandemic and are stating financial insecurity due to the pandemic as a reason to lay-off as they are unwilling to take the risk of when their business model could again become profitable, which is immoral. I would encourage parliament to enforce key industries or any employer stating financial issues as a reason in redundancy be enforced to take up a mandatory 3 month trial of the wage retention scheme prior to being able to enforce a redundancy.