Recruiters accused of 'double dipping' on covid wage subsidy

Recruiters accused of 'double dipping' on covid wage subsidy
Brent Melville
Recruitment and staffing agencies have been accused by their peers of exploiting a loophole in the government's covid wage subsidy scheme that could see them being paid both under the subsidy and by the client for contracted field staff.At issue are bulk payments made to a number of staffing firms under the Ministry of Social Development's 'high trust' rules, where recruiters could claim for all personnel on their books regardless of whether they were employed or not under covid lockdown rules. These were made on the b...

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