1,700 meatworkers at Australia’s largest beef processing facility are without work for the next two weeks as the abbatoir shuts down because of COVID-19.
JBS, near Ipswich west of Brisbane, has reduced its operations by 40 per cent over the past two months.
Now workers and the company want changes to JobKeeper to give them some security.
Baz Ruddick reports.
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