May 15, 2020
The Business Council of Australia is backing a new coordinated business campaign to keep people safe as the economy starts to reopen by making sure we are all ‘good to go’.
Businesses, both big and small, have been busy adapting their workplaces and processes to ensure they are COVIDSafe. Safe Work Australia has also published return to work guidelines for businesses to follow, but that is not all of the solution. It is now up to each of us as individuals – either as customers, employers, employees or suppliers – to play our part, and that means following those three simple steps.
The Good to Go campaign provides the entire business community with a coordinated voice that allows us to get three simple health messages out to our teams.
By doing this, we can have confidence that it is safe to go back to work, go to the shops and get the country moving again.
By continuing to follow the advice of health officials, Good to Go means we can all do our part in protecting the health and safety of workers, customers, and suppliers as COVID-19 restrictions ease.
We are encouraging all employers to join the Good to Go campaign and share these important messages with their teams.
1. Promote Good to Go on your social media platforms using the free assets form below.
2. Download the COVIDSafe App.
The Business Council of Australia is backing a new coordinated business campaign to keep people safe as the economy starts to reopen by making sure we are all ‘good to go’.
Businesses, both big and small, have been busy adapting their workplaces and processes to ensure they are COVIDSafe. Safe Work Australia has also published return to work guidelines for businesses to follow, but that is not all of the solution. It is now up to each of us as individuals – either as customers, employers, employees or suppliers – to play our part, and that means following those three simple steps.
The Good to Go campaign provides the entire business community with a coordinated voice that allows us to get three simple health messages out to our teams.
By doing this, we can have confidence that it is safe to go back to work, go to the shops and get the country moving again.
By continuing to follow the advice of health officials, Good to Go means we can all do our part in protecting the health and safety of workers, customers, and suppliers as COVID-19 restrictions ease.
We are encouraging all employers to join the Good to Go campaign and share these important messages with their teams.
1. Promote Good to Go on your social media platforms using the free assets form below.
2. Download the COVIDSafe App.
State border closures have seen passenger numbers on Australia’s busiest air routes plummet 91 per cent since March, crippling the aviation sector and causing harmful knock-on effects in tourism and hospitality.
We can’t afford to be left behind and miss out on opportunities to establish safe travel corridors with other low-risk countries who have also managed the virus well.
Passenger aircraft carry much more than people.
Putting a nationally agreed plan in place for international travel will allow us to ramp up this critical sector once we get the green light. This is not a temporary problem for Australia. If we fail to begin carefully reopening, we will miss out.
Support the campaign to get Australia moving by emailing your local members of parliament today.
The 2021-22 Victorian Budget has proposed a payroll tax hike.
Payroll tax is a tax on jobs.
Payroll tax makes no sense. Increases to payroll tax act as a disincentive for businesses to grow and create more jobs. It's as simple as that.
The costs are felt by employees through slower wages growth, consumers through higher prices, super funds through lower dividends and jobseekers who can't find work.
This is the worst possible time to increase taxes.
Victorian businesses have been - and continue to be - smashed by long and difficult lockdowns. Why on earth would we want to slug them now?
Victoria is becoming an uncompetitive place to do business.
Some of the biggest employers in the state will simply look elsewhere to do business, invest in new projects and create jobs. Other states are cutting payroll tax and competing hard for business.
Everyone agrees mental health is an important issue especially in Victoria where the community has borne the brunt of this pandemic.
That’s why the business community already spends millions of dollars on mental health programs for their employees and contributes significantly to many community initiatives.
Having a job, being productive and having a purpose is important for good mental health. If mental health is the issue, a tax on jobs is not the answer.
The business community stands ready to work with the Victorian Parliament on a better solution to the mental health challenges.
Email your local MP and urge them to oppose the tax on jobs and work with the business community.
Authorised by J. Clark for the Business Council of Australia of 120 Collins St, Melbourne.
