Originally Posted by ACT Crusader
The PA announcement is a ban. The FWA allows an employer to reduce pay because of bans, regardless of what the ban might be, but it also means a worker can complete other work and still get paid for it.
Well, the employer has to be a little careful there. Fair Work Australia can knock that on the head, and by law must take into account the "nature and extent" of the partial work ban (which, yes, as bizarre as it sounds, the extra PAs full under the definition of).
The employer would look pretty silly docking you a week's (or even a day's) pay for making an extra PA when there is no company prescribed limit on how many PAs you can make in the first place, nor when exactly you are allowed to make them, for obvious reasons. As pointed out, it's very difficult to imagine how Qantas could possibly argue (and quantify) that the PA costs them anything at all.
The company may well try to be a***holes, but there are limits as to how far they can take that in practice.