Originally Posted by
CaptCloudbuster
I agree with you that the issue of People on long term sick leave could be handled better.
To offer something in the way of balance, QF are allowing affected People to stand down unpaid in order to receive the full Job Keeper subsidy despite being permitted to request (that can’t be unreasonably refused) AL be used down to 2 weeks.
Qantas are doing that for one reason and one reason alone. They need to preserve cash and forcing leave upon the staff will invariably cost them more cash, despite offsetting the cost with Jobkeeper, than they can retain by having no outgoings on leave payments.
I very much doubt it's been done as a gesture of goodwill.