Airline fails to overturn ruling that it unlawfully outsourced almost 1,700 jobs in part to avoid industrial action
Qantas will go to the high court in a last-ditch attempt to avoid paying a mammoth compensation bill to almost 1,700 sacked ground handlers for years of lost work, after the airline failed to overturn a ruling that it illegally outsourced the jobs.July 2021 ruling
The Transport Workers Union had argued the outsourcing decision was motivated by an anti-union sentiment. Many of those sacked were union members and their bargaining agreement was set to expire the following month.Qantas appealed it, while remedy hearings have also taken place between the airline and the TWU, which brought the initial court challenge over the outsourcing decision.
The legal saga will now return to the remedy hearings, where justice Michael Lee will decide on the compensation for affected workers and financial penalties against Qantas. “Qantas has always said the decision to outsource our ground handling function was based on lawful commercial reasons in response to the unprecedented impact of the Covid crisis.”
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