The court cases involving Uber and Qantas raised different questions about legalised business and union monopolies.
of the class action brought by a Labor-aligned law firm on behalf of Victorian taxi drivers and licence holders.In shades of the CFMEU, Uber’s business model for entering new markets amounted to ignoring the existing legal barriers and paying for the consequences later.
Meanwhile, Qantas is back before the Federal Court to determine the compensation to be paid to the baggage handlers whom the High Court ruled the airline illegally sacked. The High Court found Qantas had “sound commercial reasons” for emulating its competitor airlines by seeking to outsource its baggage handling, but had breached the highly prescriptive Fair Work Act because its strategy would prevent workers from taking protected industrial action in the future.
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