Another example of how Jestar staff are more productive than Qantas staff on average.
...or that Jetstar are so terrified by the tenuous nature of their work contract, they are too frightened to take sick leave.
Sick leave can be abused and there are probably heaps of abuse throughout Qantas (partly due to over-generous SL provisions in EBAs etc) but I have always found that if you have an engaged happy workforce, people self-regulate and restrict their sick leave to when they are actually sick and that is the time, as an employer, I don't want them in anyway.
Qantas has developed such a poisonous culture that employees are taking extra sick leave because they feel under-valued whilst management treat all sick leave (except their own) as a rort. This is a race to the bottom.