Emotional reality for workers left struggling in COVID-19 shutdown. 9News
Breaking News and Live Updates: Just three per cent of new infections acquired overseas; Victoria records highest daily increase of COVID-19 cases, two more dead; NSW confirms 10 new COVID-19 cases; Melbourne aged care crisis growsAfter months of unemployment and applying for dozens of jobs, securing just eight job interviews, Troy has landed a part-time job.
Troy Bayley was one of hundreds of thousands of Australians forced out of work by the COVID-19 shutdown.The unemployment rate has risen to 7.4 per cent but the number of people in part-time work has jumped.And with the JobSeeker rate due to be halved at the end of September, he urged the government not to cut it.
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