300 Qantas pilots to get the chop ???

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Integration award, LH award, etc

Both the shorthaul and long haul awards have paragraphs in them that state that they come under the integration agreement, and that where there is a disparity between either award and the integration agreement, that the integration agreement will prevail.

In the instance of redundancies, that paragraphs I quoted above would apply, irrespective of what it says in the short haul or long haul award. If you are beneath the y and retrenchments occur, they are to be done as per the pilots award, defined in the integration agreement as the old 1989 long haul award, or whatever it turns into, in this case the 2013 WD.

In that case, it is your seniority in the Qantas system that will determine whether you are promoted or demoted, as per clause 16.4. The question is, what is retrenchment?

There is even a legal argument that in the case of redundancies that paragraph 16.4 would apply over the RIN process for demotions and promotion, the trigger being that a redundancy has occurred.

One thing is sure, this is happening and it will end in tears for a lot of people, and cost the company a motza.