The hardship payment is available for people who have tested positive and need to quarantine, or have been deemed a close contact of a positive case and need to quarantine.
He said he didn't want Victorians going to work ill because they couldn't afford to stay at home and miss a shift. "It's not about being critical of people for the circumstances they find themselves in, it's about acknowledging the facts and being clear about those," Mr Andrews said. He said it was important to support workers who could not access sick leave or work from home. "We want a situation where you're no worse off, but every Victorian is much better off, because you're not at work," Mr Andrews said. It's a one-off, $1,500 payment for people who'll lose their income if authorities order them to self-quarantine because they have tested positive for coronavirus, or are a close contact of a confirmed case. The State Government announced the coronavirus worker support payment about a month ago. The Premier said the Victorian Government was addressing this issue through hardship payments. He flagged insecure jobs, where people did not have sick leave and needed to work their shifts to get paid, as an issue contributing to why some people were continuing to work while waiting for test results or while they had symptoms. "Unless we have people who get tested staying at home and isolating until they get their results, then we will not see these numbers come down," he said. Mr Andrews said those issues were contributing to workplace transmission. On top of that, Mr Andrews said 53 per cent of people who tested positive had not self-isolated while waiting for their results. "From 3,810 cases, which are the cases between July 7 and July 21, I'm very unhappy and very sad to have to report that nearly 9 in 10 - or 3,400 cases - did not isolate between when they first felt sick and when they went to get a test," he said.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the state's coronavirus numbers are being driven up by people taking too long to get a test and continuing to work and shop while waiting for their test result.
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