Almost a million Australians out of work due to coronavirus, ABS data suggests - ABC News

Almost 1 million Australians have lost their jobs since social-distancing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 ramped up, new official ABS data suggests.

Key points:

• The ABS says the number of jobs in Australia fell by 7.5 per cent between March 14 and April 18
• Jobs in accommodation and food services slumped by a third, while 27 per cent of arts and recreation jobs went
• The job losses have been most severe in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia

Analysing payroll data from the tax office, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found the number of jobs slumped by 7.5 per cent between March 14 and April 18.

The data only measures those workers on the payroll of their employer, of which there are about 10 million in Australia.

Some of the workers captured in the payroll data may also have two or more jobs, meaning that the ABS estimates that around 650-700,000 employed people have lost work since mid-March.

However, if the impact has been similar for those working off-payroll — such as business owners, independent contractors and other self-employed people — it means up to a million out of the 13 million Australians who were working in mid-March no longer are.

Given that access to the JobKeeper scheme requires employers to keep paying their staff before being paid by the ATO, these ABS figures are reflective only of those who are unemployed, not those whose wages are being subsidised by the Federal Government.

The ABS said job losses were heaviest in accommodation and food services, where more than one-third of workers lost employment, followed by arts and recreation services where 27 per cent of staff found themselves out of work.

Job losses were heaviest in Victoria (8.6 per cent), Tasmania (8 per cent), South Australia (7.8 per cent) and New South Wales (7.4 per cent), which are states that had some of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks and have also had the toughest social-distancing restrictions.

The Northern Territory had the lowest proportion of job losses at 5.7 per cent, with Queensland (6.5 per cent), Western Australia (6.6. per cent) and the ACT (6.9 per cent) in between.

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