Qantas is bracing for a costly compensation settlement for workers it unlawfully sacked during the pandemic. The high court has upheld the federal court's finding that Qantas acted illegally when it sacked 17-hundred baggage handlers and cleaners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The jobs at 10 airports were outsourced as the airline faced a decline in business.
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00:00 In the end, going all the way to the High Court over many years and having that victory
00:05 isn't like the desired circumstance in Australia.
00:09 You don't want employers to be able to just outsource their labour to labour hire companies
00:14 as a gaming the system to try and cut wages.
00:17 And that's what Fonis did.
00:18 They are a master at it.
00:19 They've got 38 different labour hire companies that they do that with.
00:23 So that's why it's really important that it's up to our lawmakers now, so Parliament, to
00:27 close those loopholes.
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