Belgravia Leisure has stood down 172 permanent and casual workers at the Gurri Wanyarra and Faith Leech leisure centres since the crisis began.

It has been able to access JobKeeper payments for employees.

"All full-time and part-time Belgravia staff who have been stood down continue to be employed, and continue to accrue annual leave entitlements," a spokesperson said.

"Whilst the future remains unclear, we will continue to respond in line with recommendations from Government and in the meantime, remain in regular contact with employees during the shutdown period.

"Our staff's health and wellbeing remains our first priority."

The YMCA has stood down or de-rostered 65 permanent and casual staff from the Peter Krenz Leisure Centre.

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Libraries have had to cut back casual staff's hours, Goldfields Library Corporation chief executive Mark Hands said.

"We are supporting our staff with an enormous amount of work but our casuals are of concern to us," Mr Hands said.

"We can't give them significant amounts of work given we have a large permanent workforce."

Permanent workers have less work now that libraries are closed.

They and casual workers have been preparing to launch new programs when restrictions ease but are mostly focused on maintaining collections and ramping up online library work.

Read more: How Goldfields libraries are moving online during the COVID-19 crisis

Bendigo's council has temporarily stood down 12 casuals working on events or closed theatre spaces, chief executive Craig Neimann said.

"For those staff who were eligible, they received a small amount of special pandemic leave, which was provided pro rata based on the number of hours they had worked in the past three months.

That figure did not include all the 175 casuals on the council's books. Many of these staff supplemented other incomes by working for short periods, like art gallery ushers occasionally used during big exhibitions.

No permanent staff members have been stood down and most services are still running, Mr Neimann said. Staff are working from home where possible.

The Macedon Ranges Shire has temporarily stood down casuals at aquatic centres, the Kyneton Town Hall, Kyneton Museum and other closed facilities.

Chief executive Margo Stork said the shire was helping as many as 225 of its 282 casual workers to either apply for government support or be reassigned, where appropriate.

It too had not been forced to cut permanent staff.

Elsewhere, councils have been able to retain all their workers.

The Loddon, Campase and Central Goldfields shires all confirmed they have not had to stand their casuals down. Many are working in aged or home care services that have become even more important during the crisis.

Mount Alexander's Amanda Wilson said casual workers were filling in as gaps appeared or colleagues were forced into leave to protect themselves from COVID-19 exposure.

"Shifts for other casual roles are on an as-needs basis to cover an increase in workload or staff absences in roles such as school crossing supervisors, administration and customer service," she said.