JobKeeper supports more than a million workers. It’s over … so what happens now? – ABC News

The coming weeks could bring onthe biggest economic shocksince the pandemic itself, with the end of the $90 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme. Business owners, bureaucrats and insolvency experts are cautiously awaiting the fallout. Key points: The $90b JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme has ended, with amillion workers still relying on it JobKeeper may have been…

Pre-packing the insolvency resolution process – BusinessLine

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 envisaged standard, plain vanilla processes to start with, but anticipated sophisticated options as the ecosystem matured. With considerable learning and maturity of the ecosystem, and a reasonably fair debtor-creditor relationship in place, the stage is set to push the envelope a bit further. The IBC-envisaged corporate insolvency resolution process…

Automatic filing extensions granted by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act due to come to an end – Mirage News

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 received royal assent on 25 June 2020. The Act granted automatic extensions for filing deadlines between 27 June 2020 and 5 April 2021 to relieve the burden on companies during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and allow them to focus all their efforts on continuing to operate. Automatic extensions…

Legislative Update: New Australian Insolvency Law Reforms Enacted for Small Businesses – JD Supra

In response to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia in 2020, the federal government injected an unprecedented level of stimulus into the Australian economy and introduced temporary law reforms aimed at protecting against an anticipated “tidal wave” of insolvencies. These temporary law reforms included a moratorium on civil liability for insolvent trading for…