Virgin Blue appeals discrimination findings
Virgin Blue has launched an appeal against a ruling that it discriminated against eight former Ansett flight attendants because they were not young and attractive enough.
The flight attendants, who were aged between 35 and 55 at the time, applied for jobs with Virgin Blue following the collapse of Ansett, but failed to get past the first round of interviews.
Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal member Douglas Savage last year found the Virgin Blue assessors were unconsciously and unintentionally discriminating on the basis of age.
Virgin Blue’s barrister Glenn Martin, QC, has challenged the tribunal decision in the Queensland Court of Appeal in Brisbane.
He said Virgin Blue wanted the court to quash the ruling and award costs against the eight women or send the case back to the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal for another hearing.
He argued Virgin Blue was not given enough warning the case was being fought on the basis that the discrimination was unintentional and unconscious.
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