‘Ruthless’ sacking of staff lands Qantas with $90m fine
The largest airline in Australia was ordered to pay a record -breaking penalty for the “ruthless” decision of the “ruthless” decision of more than 1800 workers.
In 2020, Qantas was outdated by 1820 luggage transport, cleaning and ground personnel roles, and was designed to prevent union bargaining power in the federal court’s wage negotiations.
The appeal of the Embatted airline to the Supreme Court failed and paved the way for the sentence to be given on Monday.
While the Union of Transportation Workers called for a maximum of $ 121 million, Qantas Justice called for Michael Lee to give a “middle -class” penalty of $ 40 million to 80 million dollars.
Justice Lee ordered Qantas will be paid to the union, which brings $ 50 million direct trials and emphasizes illegal behavior to pay 90 million dollars.
As a reason for giving other businesses from similar behaviors, he showed the pure the pure scale of the discussions, the largest of the species ”.
“Illegal deprived of work is to deprive one of the human dignity in one aspect of human dignity, and this is not only accepted by regret.
National Secretary of Transportation Workers’ Association Michael Kaine welcomed the result as the greatest punishment given in the history of Australia.
“(These employees) was not only dismissed, and Qantas said they were delusional to question.”
“In order to kick them on the sidewalk, this ruthless, self -interest and illegal calculation rightly deserved the biggest punishment of its species.”
Mr. Kaine said the decision sent a strong message to be held responsible for breaking the law.
“This was a terrible mistake that should be right,” he said.
“Unless we objected to this decision, we made an effective permission shift for this to happen in the future.”
Justice Lee was afraid of the behavior of the airline after the external use, and pointed to its efforts to place a “sincere ön picture of the decision in front of the court.
The authority said that the execution of Qantas executives to allow the decision -making process to enter the documentation process shows the need for change within the company.
Justice Lee said Qantas apologized to the public, but then tried to reject compensation payments to the affected workers.
The judge said, orum I acknowledge that Qantas is upset, but this measure of regret is… I do not believe that the wrong genre is not sad. ”
Qantas will have to pay a heavy bill above the 120 million dollar compensation payment due to its economic losses, pain and suffering after the external resource use to the affected place personnel.
Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson said that the decision holds the airline responsible for his actions that he apologized.
“Five years ago, the decision to use outsourcing for such an uncertain time, especially for such an uncertain time, caused real challenges for most of our former team and their families,” he said.
“Over the last 18 months, we have worked hard to change our way of working as a part of our efforts to recreate trust with our people and customers.
“This continues to be our highest priority”.
The court was told that the airline launched with a scandal began to accept responsibility and began to start corrective actions overlapping with the separation of Joyce in 2023.
Don Dixon, who was illegally dismissed, said that it is time for Qantas to recover his status with actions instead of words.
“If you want to be the spirit of Australia, then go back to the Australians,” he said.
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