Australia’s Qantas hit with A$170,000 payout to sacked workers in groundbreaking outsourcing case

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Australia’s Qantas hit with A$170,000 payout to sacked workers in groundbreaking outsourcing case
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SYDNEY, Oct 21 — A court on Monday ordered Australia’s Qantas Airways to pay a combined A$170,000 (RM490,000) to three baggage handlers it unlawfully sacked in 2020, implying a...

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Lee said he found if Qantas had not illegally outsourced its ground handling operations in 2020, it would have done so lawfully in 2021 to help save about A$100 million a year. “Qantas says it’s turned over a new leaf,” said Michael Kaine, national secretary of the Transport Workers Union that brought the industrial dismissal case.

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