Yes. But if the worker was stood down and wasn’t taking leave the payment flowed straight through to the worker.
Whilst correct, I dont believe for one minute that the entire amount of government support flowed straight through to the worker.
Most people I know (not all) needed to take leave at various times just to keep food on the table, particularly families where both incomes are supplied by the aviation industry. Not too many peeps could just live off jobkeeper, but I’m sure there were some.
The group basically had their leave balances subsidized by jobkeeper during the pandemic.
Also, the entity I work for made the whole process as convoluted as possible. As a result, people missed out of government support via various cutoffs, payroll anomalies, payroll balancing, company policy (fortnight support payments vs monthly pays) etc.