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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Paul Karp

Upholding Qantas’s decision to sack staff would weaken workplace rights, union warns

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Qantas hopes to overturn a full federal court decision exposing it to a mammoth compensation bill for laying off staff at 10 airports in November 2020. Photograph: Russell Freeman/AAP

Upholding Qantas’s decision to sack staff ahead of industrial action would create “uncertainty” about accessing workplace rights and water down protections against other forms of discrimination, such as sacking workers before they accrue parental leave.

That is the submission of the Transport Workers’ Union in the airline’s high court case seeking to overturn the finding that it illegally outsourced 1,700 ground handler jobs.

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