Buyers hover as administrators plot course to save Rex Embattled Rex has received significant interest from potential buyers, administrators say, as the regional carrier battles to stay in the air. AAP · Aug 8, 2024
As many as 360 workers sacked at Rex with hundreds more jobs to go Employees reportedly told the airline will no longer operate flights between capital cities The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2024
Bonza reaches end of tarmac as budget carrier wound up Creditors have voted to liquidate embattled airline Bonza with more than $110 million believed to be owed to creditors, workers, landlords and the tax office. AAP · Jul 2, 2024
Staff to remain stood down at troubled airline More than 300 Bonza workers will wait two more weeks to know if they will keep their jobs as talks with prospective buyers for the embattled airline continue. AAP · May 14, 2024
Bonza enters voluntary administration after abruptly cancelling all flights across Australia Passengers were earlier left stranded as discussions took place on ‘viability of business’ The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2024
Uber ride-share rival Ola hits the brakes in Australia Ride-share company Ola will end its operations in Australia after six years, warning customers of the closure in an email. AAP · Apr 9, 2024
Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka steps down after nearly four years in top role Hrdlicka’s abrupt departure comes as airline’s owners plan to push ahead with relisting on stock exchange The Guardian - AU · Feb 20, 2024
Hungry Panda delivery rider launches legal action against company claiming loss of work after protesting pay Data seen by Guardian Australia shows Zhuoying Wang gets between 30 to 70 orders per shift but this dropped down to zero around the protest The Guardian - AU · Jan 30, 2024
Virgin should get rights to extra Bali flights over Jetstar, Transport Workers Union says TWU backs Virgin over Qantas’s budget carrier, citing former’s commitment to employing locally based crews in submission to International Air Services Commission The Guardian - AU · Jan 23, 2024
Flight delays loom as Virgin staff threaten stoppages Cabin crew staff at Virgin Australia have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking industrial action as negotiations with the airline hit a wall. AAP · Dec 4, 2023
Virgin signs deal with ground staff, cabin threat looms Virgin Australia has agreed to a new deal with ground workers, but still faces the prospect of industrial action with cabin crew poised to strike. AAP · Nov 20, 2023
‘Poverty pay’: travellers may soon face airport disruption as Virgin Australia crew close in on striking Transport Workers Union chief says ground crew and pilots fear ‘mistakes being made due to their unsustainable working conditions’ The Guardian - AU · Nov 12, 2023
New workplace laws are 'life and death legislation' Businesses across Australia have spent millions of dollars on a campaign against workplace reforms that unions say stop gig economy worker deaths. AAP · Oct 3, 2023
Joyce to be summoned by Senate probe on Qantas lobbying Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce will be summoned to appear at a Senate inquiry examining the airline's role in a government decision to reject extra Qatar flights. AAP · Sep 26, 2023
AAP · Sep 20, 2023 Qantas CEO to sit down with union leader, lawyers Recently appointed Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson will need to be in the room when lawyers discuss compensation for workers the airline illegally sacked.
The Guardian - AU · Sep 20, 2023 Qantas CEO ordered into mediation with union to decide compensation for sacked workers Vanessa Hudson and Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Michael Kaine to attend proceedings as penalties expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars
Al Jazeera · Sep 13, 2023 Australia’s Qantas illegally sacked workers during COVID, court rules Australia’s High Court upholds earlier ruling that airline broke the law when it outsourced ground handling jobs.
The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2023 Australia's highest court finds Qantas illegally fired 1,700 ground staff during pandemic Qantas Airways has lost its challenge to a court ruling that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions
The Guardian - AU · Sep 13, 2023 High court rules Qantas illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during pandemic Decision exposes embattled airline to mammoth compensation bill in major win for the Transport Workers Union
The Guardian - AU · Sep 5, 2023 Family of Uber Eats rider who died after being hit by truck urges MPs to pass Labor’s gig worker changes Union helps Burak Dogan’s family lodge workers’ compensation claim after company denied them $400,000 death benefit
The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2023 ‘Only at Qantas’: workers express disbelief at CEO Alan Joyce’s $10m share windfall Unions say bonus payments, revealed to the ASX on Friday, ‘reward management for short-term thinking and cost cutting’
The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2023 UberEats food delivery driver dies in Sydney crash The death is the second in a month and the 13th since 2017 of a transport gig worker, with calls for ‘life or death’ reforms to the industry
The Canberra Times · Aug 5, 2023 Protest traffic clears up along Northbourne Avenue, parliamentary triangle More than 100 heavy vehicles are part of a convoy to Parliament House.
Pedestrian.tv · Aug 2, 2023 An Uber Driver Was Allegedly Attacked By Passengers W/ Hammers While Doing A Pick Up In Qld The attack occurred amidst calls for better safety for gig economy workers.
The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2023 Uber Eats rider killed in Sydney crash identified as Indian scholarship student Akshay Deepak Doultani Doultani, 22, was studying a master’s in finance hoping to give his family in India ‘a brighter future’