Anyway, an update on my position, it turns out the 8000 people that work for pubs in the ALH group miss out on Job Keeprs payment, the only pub workers that miss out. It's because a couple of months ago they merged with BWS and Dan Murphys and because those companies are still making mega bucks the ALH pub workers miss out. If I worked for any other pub group in the nation I'd be entitled but as I work for ALH I'm not which seems a bit stupid. Maybe the government should have looked at giving the money to eligible workers not eligible employers.
Having said that our group was in the position to offer some position to laid off workers (of which I declined) which is good but I really feel sorry for those workers that didn't get a gig and now have no income. I personally am in a pretty good position, our employer did give us an extra forthnight pay which they didn't have to and I get a super pension every fortnight from my 30 years in the govt(and my missus is full time employed as an accountant).
Even though I don't have my income from working at a pub it turns out we're actually saving more money than usual as most of our expendable income goes at pubs! It's pretty scary how much we spend weekly at pubs catching up with friends and seeing bands!!
My only problem is I'm going to get even fatter without the amount of physical work I normally do, at least my online characters on World of Warcraft are as fit as ever!