You hear people say “just get a job” all the time. As an MP,I’d never experienced the pain of failing to find work. A new TV experiment changed that.
Sydney’s women have been hit by a “triple whammy” during lockdowns – they’ve lost more jobs than men,are receiving less income support than men and have taken on a disproportionate share of extra household tasks.
The pandemic deleted 900,000 jobs overnight – a wipe-out not seen since the Great Depression. And the human stories behind those numbers are brutal.
After eight years of casual work,academic and single mother Jennie Jeppesen was in a tenuous position. Now,in the wake of COVID,her future is bleaker still.
More than 1200,000 young people were forced out of full-time jobs during the darkest days of the pandemic and while some,like Semir,are back at work,many others are still searching.
Juhi Sachdev’s money has almost run out. The trainee chef from India had a great job at a Collins Street hotel,but the COVID-19 pandemic ended that. Now,her future is uncertain.
Fiona Caffery never thought she’d be looking for a job at 58,but the small business owner is determined to make it through after COVID-19 wreaked havoc on her travel agency.
‘My life fell out from underneath me,’ says Peter Shnek,56,who lost his job at a firewood business when state borders closed in March.
As the coronavirus upended life across the globe,jobs evaporated on a scale not seen in Australia for almost a century. Close to 900,000 jobs were lost between February and May. Wylie Miller was performing on a cruise ship when the pandemic plunged him into poverty.