Originally Posted by
mulisector
Might be a silly question but ... why would anyone be so scared of a lockout, last time QF shut for 2 days and government forced it to re-open. Seemed like company lost a lot more money than the pilots 2 days of pay ?
Exactly. No one should be scared of a lockout. All it means is that the employer is preventing the locked out employees from performing any work and therefore will not be paying them for the days they are locked out:
https://www.fwc.gov.au/industrial-ac...loyer-response
In the case of JQ pilots this is effectively closing down the business for the period of the lockout. This action would likely do much more harm to the business than to the pilots.
PG