Getting loads of questions about appeals and the txt we sent this arvo. I will explain a little.
The Workplace determination has a redundancy clause. It allows an appeal to be lodged but it must be done within 4 working days to the company or the ALAEA. If it goes to the ALAEA we must pass on the names to Qantas within 2 days.
The appeal is not about you being told that you aint got a job in two months time. You are appealling the decision of the airline to make your position redundant. That is, they have declared that they no longer need x number of LAMEs at SDT, we can appeal the decision to reduce positions within a department. Depending on how Qantas want to move the goal posts, they could say that it was last Thu that the positions were declared redundant.
We need to get the appeals and names in by mid week. If you don't get your name on a list and find yourself out of work in 3 months, management may try and exclude you from exercising the rights of a successful appeal down the track.
Had a few calls wanting to know if Qantas can use the list to pick who stays. Legally they cannot and I doubt that they would. The ALAEA and Qantas will work out together how the condemned will be chosen and it will have no reference to the list. From the rate the responses came in this arvo, we expect nearly all members to be on it anyway.
Get in now or possibly lose your right of appeal further down the track.