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Transition Layer
When is the pandemic “over”? Please do tell!
When it no longer qualifies as one. It’s fluid, depends on levels of strain of health systems, amount of restrictions on movement, levels of immunisation etc. On an international scale it won’t be until sufficient levels of immunisation are reached, the situation is mixed, even some first world countries haven’t immunised to a great extent.
It’s not just the status of the pandemic, the Federal Court in the ALAEA case
found four factors which triggered the stand downs:
(i) the collapse in passenger travel;
(ii) measures implemented domestically and internationally to restrict movement;
(iii) the increasing concern that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would be sustained; and
(iv) uncertainty as to how long the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would last,
It might be a case of waiting until passenger numbers return to near pre pandemic levels before the justification for stand downs is no longer there. The union are free to challenge legally, but when it comes to court cases history has shown judges generally side with only one party in these disputes.