Qantas overtime ban.
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Qantas overtime ban.
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Workers stood down as talks continue. . . .Qantas industrial dispute may affect flights
Qantas says its industrial dispute with maintenance workers may start to affect flights soon.
The airline has stood down hundreds of workers in Melbourne and Sydney - 450 Melbourne-based workers were stood down and 200 in Sydney.
The workers have had a ban on overtime since September, as part of their long running dispute over a Qantas wage freeze.
The AMWU and the AWU say this will only see the dispute escalate.
Manager of aircraft operations at Qantas David Forsyth says the workers will not be able to return on Monday unless overtime bans are lifted.
He says the bans will soon affect the airline's operations.
"There's a lot of work for us to do there and probably in fact too much work for us to do with our existing resources," he said.
"So we are quite strapped at the moment and we need everybody at work working normally."
Qantas says it will stop standing workers down when they start doing overtime again.
. .The above quote does seem somewhat ludicrous. The workers refuse to do overtime; the company say they are really busy and need the workers to do more hours so they STAND THEM DOWN until they agree to lift overtime bans.
Doesn't that result in less WORK being done?
ABC News
Workers stood down as talks continue. . . .Qantas industrial dispute may affect flights
Qantas says its industrial dispute with maintenance workers may start to affect flights soon.
The airline has stood down hundreds of workers in Melbourne and Sydney - 450 Melbourne-based workers were stood down and 200 in Sydney.
The workers have had a ban on overtime since September, as part of their long running dispute over a Qantas wage freeze.
The AMWU and the AWU say this will only see the dispute escalate.
Manager of aircraft operations at Qantas David Forsyth says the workers will not be able to return on Monday unless overtime bans are lifted.
He says the bans will soon affect the airline's operations.
"There's a lot of work for us to do there and probably in fact too much work for us to do with our existing resources," he said.
"So we are quite strapped at the moment and we need everybody at work working normally."
Qantas says it will stop standing workers down when they start doing overtime again.
. .The above quote does seem somewhat ludicrous. The workers refuse to do overtime; the company say they are really busy and need the workers to do more hours so they STAND THEM DOWN until they agree to lift overtime bans.
Doesn't that result in less WORK being done?
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Whilst it may seem strange what Qantas are doing it does make sense. They have asked for a wage freeze with other unions. Most have accepted some form of freeze.
These guys have been on overtime bans since September and it is strating to become unsustainable for QF's maintenance scheduling so they are trying to find a solution. A negotiated solution was voted down so I guess they are playing hard ball.
The precedent they are using is a valid one. These guys are refusing to do overtime where there is a convention of normally doing some overtime. There have been several cases sucessfully argued by companies in the IRC that an employee has to do a reasonable amount of overtime. This could get quite ugly as QF appear to be very determined this time around.
These guys have been on overtime bans since September and it is strating to become unsustainable for QF's maintenance scheduling so they are trying to find a solution. A negotiated solution was voted down so I guess they are playing hard ball.
The precedent they are using is a valid one. These guys are refusing to do overtime where there is a convention of normally doing some overtime. There have been several cases sucessfully argued by companies in the IRC that an employee has to do a reasonable amount of overtime. This could get quite ugly as QF appear to be very determined this time around.
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I agree with all of the above.
Most contracts/agreements/awards have a provision for reasonable overtime to be worked by mutual agreement.
My point is that Qantas is defeated by it's own logic; we need more hours from you so we will stand you down until you agree to work more!
By the way the beatings will continue until morale improves. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Most contracts/agreements/awards have a provision for reasonable overtime to be worked by mutual agreement.
My point is that Qantas is defeated by it's own logic; we need more hours from you so we will stand you down until you agree to work more!
By the way the beatings will continue until morale improves. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
