This case is fascinating not only for the result but the clear contempt for due process, working conditions and an unfair levered advantage (of the management)
It is outrageous that in this country labour relations are so in the favour of the employer that it takes a court and a challenge to sort this out.
At least the AFAP does has the interests of members at heart.
Qantas HR are all over the pilot recruitment process, flight operations confined to a walk on walk off part and the simulator check the last part of an exhaustive HR driven 'talent' process, where ' applicants' get to do group exercises and leadership making bridges from icy pole sticks.. Attempts to control the already employed pilots are underway. A ham-fisted uniform guide ( of 23 pages) with 'stand down' provisions the first attempt...
REX's approach is an Ian Oldmeadow (IR/HR) utopian dream....if only the court would have found in management's favour the new applicants at Qantas would have had to write something similar!
