{"id":987524415,"date":"2021-09-24T03:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/smaller-firms-receives-covid-wage-subsidy-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:01:49","slug":"smaller-firms-receives-covid-wage-subsidy-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/smaller-firms-receives-covid-wage-subsidy-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller firms receives COVID wage subsidy in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>New Zealand paid over $876 million for the Covid-19 wage subsidy<\/span><\/span><\/span> scheme so far to support more than a quarter of the country&#8217;s employees affected&nbsp;by COVID-19.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Of the 781,364 jobs are covered under the scheme, 14 percent were for self-employed workers.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Applications have been placed to assist 997,466 employees and sole traders.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The majority of recipients who are covered under the scheme works in small firms, whereas only 2.1 percent were employed by firms with&nbsp;over 500 staff. To read more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/business\/450479\/figures-show-smaller-firms-make-up-majority-of-876m-wage-subsidy-payout-so-far\">click<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Source: RNZ<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Picture by&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@the-travel-bible-on-youtube-18647469\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Travel Bible On YouTube \ud83d\ude42<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/6574642\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand paid over $876 million for the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme so far to support more than a quarter of the country&#8217;s employees affected&nbsp;by COVID-19. Of the 781,364 jobs are covered under the scheme, 14 percent were for self-employed workers. Applications have been placed to assist 997,466 employees and sole traders. The majority of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316,124,131,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}