Original article by Tansy Harcourt
The Australian – Page: 14 : 24-Dec-25

It has been revealed that more than 1,800 former Qantas ground staff have received just 10 per cent of the compensation they were awarded for being unlawfully sacked during the pandemic. Qantas had paid $120m into to a compensation fund administered by law firm Maurice Blackburn in early 2025, while a court subsequently ruled that $40m of Qantas’s record fine of $90m should also be distributed to the baggage handlers. However, some of the workers only received a payment this week, and only because the Federal Court’s Justice Michael Lee recently ruked that each worker must recieve an interim payment of $3,333 before Christmas.

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QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED – ASX QAN, MAURICE BLACKBURN PTY LTD, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA