Qantas Redundancies
As a very junior Qantas pilot, I am particularly apprehensive at present that Qantas will start sacking pilots. Whilst I strongly appreciate the efforts of AIPA to avoid this, I get the distinct impression that a number of redundancies are likely. I suppose the major concern to those facing the "chop" is that there are very limited opportunities else where in the industry and the short term outlook still continues to be gloomy.
Does anyone on this forum have any "inside" information wrt this issue?
Are Qantas obliged to pay redundancy payouts to those with less than 5 years service ? If so, what rate ?
Is AIPA looking at alternate Qantas group employment for it junior members (Q Link, Jetstar, Jetstar Asia) ?
If redundancies do occur, how will LOA 161 be applied? That is, is seniority in this instance from date of appointment ?