Launched on 7 October 2020 in line with the Federal Budget, JobMaker is a scheme that gives financial incentives directly to companies that take on new staff aged between 16 and 35. The question of whether this is leading or will lead to further age discrimination from employers is for another time, but the thinking is that with younger and less experienced employees being the ones that experienced the most negative impacts of pandemic related lay-offs, the scheme will have two main advantages –
