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A wage subsidy scheme for businesses that hire unemployed young people has been criticised after Treasury officials confirmed only 10 per cent of the jobs created would be genuinely new.
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Employers who sack older staff to take advantage of taxpayer cash for hiring young workers could be excluded from the JobMaker wage subsidy scheme, while corporations found to have underpaid workers or recently paid dividends to shareholders could also be cut out.
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