Original article by Ayesha de Kretser
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 18-Dec-24

Qantas has agreed to pay $120m in compensation to 1,683 ground handling workers whose jobs were outsourcd in 2020. The Transport Workers Union’s national secretary Michael Kaine has welcomed the deal; he says that "delivering justice" to the affected workers is "the first step in turning Qantas around". Economic and non-economic losses will be considered in determining each worker’s share of the payout. Qantas had argued that the outsourcing was necessary in response to the pandemic, but Federal Court ruled that the workers had been illegally sacked to prevent them from exercising their workplace right to take industrial action.

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QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED – ASX QAN, TRANSPORT WORKERS’ UNION, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA