Qantas chief ordered into mediation over fired workers
The new chief executive of Qantas has been ordered into mediation talks with union leaders to thrash out compensation for fired workers.
CEO Vanessa Hudson and Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Michael Kaine will attend talks to agree compensation.
It relates to 1,700 ground handling workers who were illegally fired by Qantas in order to outsource cheaper labour.
It could cost the airline hundreds of millions of dollars.
The airline finally lost the case last week in the High Court after several appeals.
In 2021 the federal court deemed Qantas’s actions a violation of the Fair Work Act.
Justice Michael Lee said he was hopeful Qantas and the TWU can ‘resolve their differences.’
Lee specifically asked the airline’s CEO to be present, despite objections by the airline.
“I don’t want it to be attended to by a lawyer. I want the chief executive officer to be present,” the judge said.
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