South Australia has joined eastern seaboard state leaders in calling on the federal government to reinstate pandemic leave payments, which ended on June 30.
This comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended his decision not to extend the pandemic leave payment, citing the trillion dollar debt his government inherited from the Morrison government.
“We’ll give consideration to all of these issues, but we inherited these decisions,” Albanese told reporters in Suva, Fiji, on July 15.
“And that’s something that was not our responsibility. There was enormous waste there in the budget,” he said, adding that there are companies who are “good employers” who are providing sick leave payments….