QANTAS contracted packaging work to cheap prison labour at the expense of a company that employs disabled people.
After a retendering process, Qantas contracted the work — sealing earphones in plastic bags — to the NSW Department of Corrective Services, rather than its long-time contractor, Sunnyfield, which employs disabled people.
“We undertook a review with all our [...]
Qantas planes could be grounded in coming weeks, as professional engineers consider strike action.
After seven months of failed negotiations over pay and conditions, workers have voted in favour of industrial action.
Professional engineers are the only ones who can approve significant aircraft maintenance, and any strike would cause huge flight disruptions.
Members of the union will meet [...]
IBM says it has received a “positive response” from the 178 employment offers made to Qantas IT project delivery staff.
Qantas employees are being courted as part of a seven-year outsourcing deal with IBM that’s valued at up to $200 million.
The deadline to accept the offer was September 30.
“There’s been a positive response from across the [...]
Qantas’s former boss, Geoff Dixon, is expected to draw the ire of shareholders and staff for the second year running after it emerged today that he pocketed a salary of almost $11 million despite serving only five months as chief executive last year.
Mr Dixon’s total salary of $10.7 million in 2008-09 – down 12 per [...]
