JobKeeper: Most local car companies unlikely to repay taxpayer handouts
Despite a strong industry recovery at the end of 2020
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Australia s biggest car companies are unlikely to follow Toyota’s decision to return millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded JobKeeper payments –
and nor are they obliged to – despite a strong industry recovery at the end of 2020.
Last week Toyota Australia announced it would repay the $18 million in taxpayer-funded employee subsidies it received last year.
Since the announcement, Toyota Australia has insisted its decision was voluntary.
Drive asked Toyota Australia if it was eligible for JobKeeper given one of the criteria was a 50 per cent downturn in business. Figures show Toyota sales dipped by just 0.5 per cent for the calendar year.
After almost six-and-a-half years.
Mercedes-Benz Australia Pacific’s chief information officer Oliver Schmill has left after almost six-and-a-half years in the role.
Schmill announced his departure in a LinkedIn post, saying he was relocating from Melbourne to Maastricht in the Netherlands.
“After six fantastic years as CIO Mercedes-Benz Australia Pacific, I‘ll be starting a new role in the heart of Europe,” he wrote.
“Moving continents is always exciting, even more in the middle of a global pandemic.”
Schmill did not disclose details of his next move.
Attempts by
iTnews to reach a representative of Mercedes-Benz Australia went unanswered.
Schmill previously worked with Daimler - which owns Mercedes-Benz along with other brands - in Germany, Singapore and China.