A lot of pain for people as overtime and allowances evaporate. Redundancies seem like overkill at least for a company that is already structurally understaffed and plenty of cash.
Originally Posted by
Wunwing
The problem with pilots and everyone else who become temporary unemployed in burning up their accrued leave is that when things improve no one will be able to take holidays because they will have no leave.
They won’t burn *all* of it unless they choose to. Plenty of employees within Qantas have over a year of banked annual leave and long service with no intention of taking it. It’s a second super fund that goes up 3% and gets cashed out when they retire.