Money and redundancy. The govt money has to stretch thin. And the proportion of @ace_national emergency funding which each NPO has got (and the info is publicly available) will not keep them going indefinitely. It’s a all a leaky, temporary life boat.

So it doesn’t necessarily mean that organisations in redundancy talks can immediately reverse them. This is ugly economics and I get it. BUT. The people being let go are humans with lives and ambitions and dependants and a need to eat.

I have no idea if any of them will get any kind of ‘package’ but I doubt it. So given this I’d like to know what NPOs are putting in place to support these newly unemployed/freelance people. Because they have a responsibility to them.

Many people being made redundant are casuals. This means they earn less and they’re more likely to make up the bulk of each organisation’s diversity statistics. Their 15%s. I hope they are setting up networks, giving them access to training, providing info on alternative jobs.

Now is not the time to throw staff under the bus. There is a kind supportive way to handle redundancy and there is slamming the door in people’s faces. If the orgs who got emergency funding don’t support their redundant staff then they don’t deserve it.

If only every funding grant could come with a kindness condition.

And how bleak that we need one.