More Support for Business

22 July 2021| Frank Ziovas | Our View

Yesterday i received a letter from Paul Guerra.

After reading this carefully, for an organisation that states to help and support business growth is sure pushing the party line.

One of his statements My message is simple: if you can get vaccinated, then please do. Many businesses have different incentives in place to encourage vaccination of their staff, ranging from additional days of leave, through to half a day of paid leave to get your vaccination.

This coercion coming from a the CEO of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

In my opinion this is not an email that shows the VCCI are fighting for small business rather an email of coercion which is telling all small business if you want to open get the shot! Yet big business is open - for example Big W, K-Mart ect. I wonder why that is?

Dear Frank,

Unfortunately, five days has turned into 12 days for Lockdown Five, right off the back of Lockdown Four. As difficult as the news was to hear this week, I don’t think it came as a surprise to most of us, given the stated desire to get to zero cases in the community.

I think we all understand the decisions that are made to protect the public health, but we can’t keep expecting business to shoulder the costs. As you will have heard me say this week in the media, business owners have exhausted their financial and emotional reserves, and they need help quickly. If the Government needs us to stop our business operating to stop the virus spread, then it’s only right that those businesses are compensated accordingly. You may be interested in an editorial in The Australian today which included my view on this in their piece.

I have been in conversation with various State and Federal Government leaders to make the point. We have seen some money flow to business and workers from both the Victorian Premier and Federal Treasurer, and we desperately needed to see more if we want to see business survive. The feedback from the survey we sent out last week on government financial assistance was very useful in framing my conversations and I’m appreciative of those of you that took the time to respond.

It was pleasing to see the announcement today on the extension and expansion of the package of grants available for Victorian businesses, and we are in discussion about further support. Please head to our website to read more about this additional support and how we can help you to secure it.

The Chamber will continue to advocate for impacted businesses not currently eligible under the various ANZSIC business sector codes to get the support that they so desperately need. As we’ve said time and again, the best support we can give business is to enable them to operate. So, let’s get through the next few days, keep the case numbers under control and then the Government should allow business to snap back to pre-lockdown settings.

It’s quite incredible that Victoria, South Australia and parts of NSW are in lockdown - some 17 million people impacted! The only way forward that I can see is vaccination. My message is simple: if you can get vaccinated, then please do. Many businesses have different incentives in place to encourage vaccination of their staff, ranging from additional days of leave, through to half a day of paid leave to get your vaccination. I’d be interested to hear what your business may be doing to encourage vaccination of your staff - please email our policy team.

I know the mental health toll is building. I have spoken to numerous business leaders this week about what they are seeing. It’s certainly good we are talking about it, but it’s very sobering to hear about it. I have no doubt we will need to remain acutely aware of it and have appropriate supports in place for every business and our workers.

Good luck with the week ahead. It’s incredibly tough. I understand some of you are also completing a 14-day isolation, which I know from experience is not fun. Let’s get through as best we can, and rest assured the Victorian Chamber will continue to do what we can to work with Governments on your behalf to help ease the financial burden and make a path to re-open safely and quickly again.

Lastly, a shout-out to our valued member VRC with Flemington Racecourse placing second in a ranking of the world’s best horse racetracks by UK business Holland’s Country Clothing! No other Australian racecourse made the top 20, and I am sure you are as excited as me to hopefully return to Flemington for the Melbourne Cup carnival this year once we leave lockdown. Congratulations to Chairman Neil Wilson and CEO Steve Rosich and their teams for a job well done.

Please take care in the week ahead.

Regards, Paul Guerra, Chief Executive, Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

My question still remains - Why is big business allowed to operate but small business is closed?

Small businesses are struggling to survive. yet the VCCI advocating for big business and small business can go to hell!

Personally i think this is a disgrace!

The Illogics of Governments

13 July 2021 | Michael Moore | michael.moore@seetvnews.com

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Governments act in an illogical way. Most they consider the best way to handle something is to dramatize the word STOP. Close everything down, reduce movement. Keep things and people still. Be a cemetery in other words. This is why so many people are now becoming more and more disillusioned with their government. This can be illustrated in the following examples.

At the Supermarket A customer asks, “Why is there plastic on the payment keypad?”

Cashier, “To protect people from Covid.”

Customer, “But isn’t everyone touching the plastic keypad the same way they would the regular keypad?”

Cashier: no words. Confused look.

Customer, “Why Don’t you pack the grocery bags anymore?”

Cashier, “Because of Covid -19 to reduce the spread of catching or spreading the virus.”

Customer, “But a shelf packer took it out of a box and put it on the shelf, a few customers might have picked it up and put back deciding they don’t want it, I put it in my cart then on the conveyor belt, YOU pick it up to scan it... But putting it in a bag after you scan is risky?”

Cashier: no words, confused look

At the drive through Server: (holding out a tray out the window with a bag of food for logical friend to grab)

Customer, “Why is my bag of food on a tray?”

Server, “So I don’t touch your food because of Covid.”

Customer, “Didn’t the cook touch my food? Didn’t the person wrapping my food touch it and then touch it again when placing it in my bag? Didn’t you touch the bag and put it on the tray? Didn’t you touch the tray?”

Server: no words. Confused look

If you cough or sneeze, do it in your elbow or sleeve where you tap others, and don’t shake hands or hug anyone or you will spread the virus (unless you are a VIP at a VIP meeting and off camera)

To greet people do an elbow tap instead. Me : Elbow tap ? Isn't that where you tell people to sneeze or cough? into their elbow? Now you want people to tap each other with that elbow wouldn't it be safer to sneeze into elbow and shake hands like we did before Covid?

Customer at a restaurant:

Hostess, “OK, I can seat you at this table right here (4 feet away), but I will need you to wear a mask to the table.”

Customer, “What happens when I get to the table?”

Hostess, “You can take off the mask.”

Customer, “Then it is safe over there?”

Hostess. “Yes.”

Customer, “Are those fans blowing above the table? Is that the air-conditioning I feel? Is the air circulating in here?

Hostess: no words. Confused look.

Logic. You must wear a mask in when out and about and going to a restaurant, but it is safe to remove it to eat because you are not going to spread germs and viruses when you eat.

If you are alone on a beach, you must wear a mask, to protect the beach?

Customer in society: You are not allowed to stand and drink when at the pub, you have to sit down. Yet when at the shopping centre you are not allowed to sit down but must stand up because all the chairs are roped off or removed.

You must wear a mask and jeans and panties because viruses you might have will be issued from your body when you fart or break wind (and with more force than breathing.). Oh, you wear the mask over your face, so it is ineffective when you fart.

So, you must keep an anti-social distance except when in an elevator when you can all crowd in and fart away like mad. (asking everyone first of all if they can smell popcorn).

You must wear a mask because you might spread germs and viruses when you breathe but to test if you have a virus you have to have a stick shoved up your arse (sorry, nose) as it does not come out through your saliva or mouth even though you must wear a mask over your mouth.

You do not know if you have a virus until you’re tested.

And so, the insanity continues.

Time for a change

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Breaking News!! Companies Preparing For The Worst?

22 June 2021 | Michael Moore | Michael.Moore@seetvnetwork.com

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From some anonymous sources I can reveal that some mining and oil companies are preparing for the great reset.

Some mining and oil companies are going through their staff and isolating out those who have been vaccinated and their positions. They are then predicting and preparing for those positions to be REFILLED in the next three years.

What do they know? Why do they expect those positions to be available and require filling within the next three years?

This apparently only applies to vaccinated staff. NOT to unvaccinated staff. And is an effort to predict and cater for the loss of staff in critical positions.

This raises several questions. How many other businesses are doing the same? Many recruiters are advising of an increase in business in recruitment, not just for business recovering from lock downs but also for those continuing but are asking about future possible recruits?

And of course, the question WHY? What are they expecting to happen to those existing staff who have been vaccinated that they should need replacing in the not-too-distant future?

The times they are a changing.