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Qantas shifts jobs to India
F***ing disgraceful.
Australia's no longer 'home' for Qantas jobs
October 1, 2006
QANTAS is set to axe 300 Australian information technology workers and send their jobs to India.
The airline said it was impossible to find enough high-tech expertise in Australia to carry out computer systems maintenance and shortlisted two Indian companies to take over the work.
A review of the airline's information technology jobs has almost been completed, and an announcement is expected in the next three weeks.
The Australian Services Union said Qantas had already granted a contract to one of the Indian companies that allowed 30 of its workers to "scope out" work in the Mascot IT office.
ASU assistant national secretary Linda White said: "At least 30 Indian nationals are working in the IT office and asking people what they are doing. They are asking our people how to do it."
The move is just the latest in a string of moves by big corporations to dump expensive local workers in favour of cheap foreign labour.
A public outcry forced banking giant Westpac to temporarily shelve plans to shift the jobs of 485 workers at Concord, Sydney, to Bangalore in India.
Ms White said Qantas was an iconic Australian company that was sending highly paid, highly skilled jobs offshore.
"It is complete spin because they currently have 830 people already doing the job. To say otherwise is an insult to the Australian university system that is educating these people."
Jobs at risk are in the airline's internet operation that deal with holiday bookings, frequent-flyer programs, operational logistics, crew and engineering operations, financial and payroll systems.
In July the airline shortlisted two Indian companies, Tata Consulting Services and Satyam, to take over the work.
Both have stepped up their Australian presence in recent years. Tata has already signed a $3.85 million deal with the Victorian Government's Curriculum Assessment Authority that will let some work be sent overseas.
A Qantas spokeswoman said it was finalising a review of its IT development, maintenance and support services.
"The review has included a shortlisting of two outsource providers in India," she said.
"The providers involved in the tender process have a capability and depth of expertise that we can no longer source in Australia.
"No decisions have been made at this stage."
The people making these decisions have obviously never seen the results of Indian "expertise".....
Australia's no longer 'home' for Qantas jobs
October 1, 2006
QANTAS is set to axe 300 Australian information technology workers and send their jobs to India.
The airline said it was impossible to find enough high-tech expertise in Australia to carry out computer systems maintenance and shortlisted two Indian companies to take over the work.
A review of the airline's information technology jobs has almost been completed, and an announcement is expected in the next three weeks.
The Australian Services Union said Qantas had already granted a contract to one of the Indian companies that allowed 30 of its workers to "scope out" work in the Mascot IT office.
ASU assistant national secretary Linda White said: "At least 30 Indian nationals are working in the IT office and asking people what they are doing. They are asking our people how to do it."
The move is just the latest in a string of moves by big corporations to dump expensive local workers in favour of cheap foreign labour.
A public outcry forced banking giant Westpac to temporarily shelve plans to shift the jobs of 485 workers at Concord, Sydney, to Bangalore in India.
Ms White said Qantas was an iconic Australian company that was sending highly paid, highly skilled jobs offshore.
"It is complete spin because they currently have 830 people already doing the job. To say otherwise is an insult to the Australian university system that is educating these people."
Jobs at risk are in the airline's internet operation that deal with holiday bookings, frequent-flyer programs, operational logistics, crew and engineering operations, financial and payroll systems.
In July the airline shortlisted two Indian companies, Tata Consulting Services and Satyam, to take over the work.
Both have stepped up their Australian presence in recent years. Tata has already signed a $3.85 million deal with the Victorian Government's Curriculum Assessment Authority that will let some work be sent overseas.
A Qantas spokeswoman said it was finalising a review of its IT development, maintenance and support services.
"The review has included a shortlisting of two outsource providers in India," she said.
"The providers involved in the tender process have a capability and depth of expertise that we can no longer source in Australia.
"No decisions have been made at this stage."
The people making these decisions have obviously never seen the results of Indian "expertise".....
