New figures from the ABS, drawn from Taxation Office’s Single Touch Payroll data, show the devastating impact of the pandemic on employment: in total, the number of jobs decreased by 6 per cent over the three weeks since the middle of March, when the latest ABS survey data showed unemployment was at just 5.2 per cent.
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