Originally Posted by
ruprecht
If only we had access to cheap labour from the 3rd world, a president who was also the CEO of QANTAS, CEO of Sydney Airport and head of CASA, then we might be able to get somewhere...
There is no such thing as cheap labor
There is exchange rate though
A Philippino earns $100.00-$150.00au per week, but on this pay can
Buy a house, a car, send kids to private school and still afford to holiday overseas
$1au buys about 36php, but the dollar for dollar is about 10-1
On that basis, if QF were to out source engineering work to the Philippines, the government could legislate a currency differential tax on the labor
For that matter, they could levy a similar tax on foreign carriers into and out of Australia to cover the labor differential
Then we would have a level playing field (and slightly higher air fares)
Net result, bring jobs back home....