Originally Posted by
ElZilcho
I believe they were told to accept LWOP or face closure of the NZ operations, thus Redundancy.
Well not exactly. Qantas decided very early on that as a group they basically need to shut down to preserve cash. 20000 people were stood down without pay with the idea of not making anyone redundant and having everyone return to work when the crisis is over and things lift.
In NZ obviously the labour laws are a little different and a stand down was not possible in the same way as oz so a temporary amendment to the cea was required and voted in very quickly without fuss from the staff.
Air NZ is an absolute mess. I'm surprised they didn't do the same thing, early on, just shut down and not pay people rediculous amounts to sit around and do nothing. It must be costing them millions.
There's been no threat or talk of redundancies at qf, in oz or NZ, and everyones doing their bit and making the sacrifices in order to preserve the company and jobs.
If there's work to be done then people are stood up to do it and paid accordingly, as are those vital to keeping the company going.
Since then Australia has introduced the jobkeeper subsidy and NZ has the wage subsidy which every one who was stood down without pay are receiving the basic subsidy from their governments