Qantas Recruitment

[Beer Baron]

Originally Posted by Makiko

"But Ian Neil SC said AIPA would argue over the coming days that Qantas had contributed to its own operational issues"

Well unless QF management were Nostradamus & knew exactly how pandemic was going to unfold sure they would have made a ton of mistakes

1. Qantas made operational decisions in order to save themselves millions of dollars. (ie. standing down staff, forcing crew to take LWOP, reducing numbers, etc.)
2. These decisions are now causing a massive training burden.
3. To ease this burden Qantas want to ignore the provisions of the EA.
4. Now the question is, is it reasonable for Second Officers who were stood down for nearly 2 years to cop a $100,000 p/a hit to their pay as a result of Qantas’s cost reduction decisions, OR, is it reasonable that Qantas follow the EA and be made to foot the bill for their own decisions that saved them huge amounts of money.

With Qantas raking in multi-billion dollar profits, I hardly think it “reasonable” that S/O’s have to pay the price for the ramifications of Qantas’s cost cutting spree.