Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
The fine and any compensation amounts will be viewed as simply the cost of doing business.
Guess what, who do you think pays for their decision in the end? Their passengers.
And therein lies the problem. A fine, or penalty is a one-off payment. What
should occur to discourage such actions in the future is for Qantas (or any business who pulls a
similar trick) to have to pay an
annual and till-the-end-of-time fine equivalent to the $$ they think they have "saved" by punting their workforce.
Ie, if QF had done nothing, their in-house staff would have cost $100M. But they punted them and now outsourcing only costs $50M, ergo, they should have to pay an
annual fine of $50M, to dissuade a repeat and such a once-off fine being viewed as "just the cost of doing business".
Why? Because sure they can outsource, and if its' found to be legal, then yep, they
will save that $50M, but if it's found to be
illegal, then there's no savings to be had at all, so why run the risk?
Ain't gonna happen though, and unless the fine is in the billions of dollars, then there's no disincentive for it to happen again, save bad
PR...