Sunday, April 5, 2020

‘Outrageous’: Qantas criticised for standing down 20,000 workers without pay

Union anger as Alan Joyce, chief of Australia’s national airline, says Qantas will not be one of the airlines that are ‘going to go under’

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Unions have demanded that any future government bailout of the airlines include money to pay workers after Australia’s national carrier, Qantas, said it will stand down two-thirds of its 30,000-strong workforce without pay and end international flights.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the standdowns were needed to survive the biggest crisis aviation has ever been through, but union leaders slammed the move for robbing from workers’ futures to prop up the airline.

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