Qantas defends its decision not to allow cabin crew who contracted COVID-19 after being stood down access to their accrued sick leave entitlements, arguing there is no job for them to be sick from.
Qantas has defended its decision not to allow cabin crew who developed COVID-19 after being stood down access to their accrued sick leave entitlements, arguing there is"no job for them to be sick from" and that many of them became infected while on holidays.
More than 50 direct Qantas employees have now tested positive to coronavirus, the union said, with some passing it on to their loved ones. They said they started to feel sick within a week of returning home to Australia, and then tested positive to COVID-19.The cabin crew member said they were paid about four days of sick leave by Qantas before they were stood down, along with 20,000 other people employed by the airline.
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