Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
- Qantas made operational decisions in order to save themselves millions of dollars. (ie. standing down staff, forcing crew to take LWOP, reducing numbers, etc.)
- These decisions are now causing a massive training burden.
- To ease this burden Qantas want to ignore the provisions of the EA.
- 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.
Yes but Makiko is suggesting that while the business has the RIGHT to make whatever decisions it feels it needs to at the time, there is no RESPONSIBILITY to live with the consequences of those decisions. Surely you can see that others must pay for any negative outcomes?