‘No additional PPE required’: Qantas fronts court over COVID safety showdown | ameliamcguiree
Qantas has fronted NSW’s District Court following allegations it acted illegally when it stood down an employee who had raised concerns about cleaning an aircraft inbound from China at the onset of the COVID pandemic.
Crown Prosecutor Patricia McDonald SC told the court on Monday that Seremetidis had raised concerns with Qantas that ground staff were expected to clean planes arriving from China without adequate protections or pandemic safety training before he was stood down. Qantas’s defence argued the airline stopped direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai from February 9 after entry restrictions on travellers from China were imposed by countries, including Singapore and the US, and not safety concerns as alleged by the prosecution.
“He was directed not to come to work while he was investigated for failing to comply with our standards of conduct policy, including allegations of attempting to incite unprotected industrial action,” Qantas said in a statement.
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