Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020

The majority voted against amendments (2) and (6) on sheet 1009, which means they failed.

What did the amendments do?

NSW Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) explained that the amendments would "expand eligibility for JobKeeper payments to workers on temporary visas."

Amendment text

(2) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:

11. Schedule 6 | The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(6) Page 33, at the end of the Bill, after proposed Schedule 5, add:

Schedule 6 — Extension of jobkeeper scheme to temporary visa holders

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

1 At the end of section 7

Add:

Requirements relating to temporary visa holders

(10) In determining the entitlement of an entity to a payment for an employee of the entity, the rules must provide that the types of employee that an entity is entitled to receive a payment in respect of include an individual that on 1 July 2020 was an employee of the entity and was the holder of a temporary visa within the meaning of the Migration Act 1958 .