Jetstar flight attendants have to sign AWA’s
Jetstar flight attendants will have to sign Australian Workplace Agreements, delivering a massive blow union movement’s hold on the airline.
Qantas is today announcing that it is introducing the AWAs as part of its strategy to cut costs and promote Jetstar as a major brand within the Qantas Group.
The Flight Attendants Association of Australia says that the new employees will be forced to work longer for thousands of dollars less than their Qantas colleagues, with the five-year contracts seeing part of the cabin crew’s pay treated as a “productivity bonus”, including extra hours and commissions from selling on-board food and entertainment.
Qantas chief Geoff Dixon Ch9 that he planned to introduce individual contracts to other parts of Qantas, emphasising the need for flexibility in the way the airline employed workers.
“We’ve been virtually a union-held company for many, many years,” he said. “We have 16 unions, we have 45 enterprise bargaining agreements within the company and 20 of them, or 15 of them, are live at the moment. In other words we are negotiating them and … we will be announcing very shortly that we are going to put AWAs into certain areas of the Qantas Group.”
Unions have said they will the fight the changes.
Report by The Mole
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