Qantas vows to go to high court after losing appeal over unlawful baggage handler sackings
by Elias Visontay from on (#5YVK2)
Airline fails to overturn ruling that it unlawfully outsourced almost 1,700 jobs in part to avoid industrial action
Qantas will go to the high court in a last-ditch attempt to avoid paying a mammoth compensation bill to almost 1,700 sacked ground handlers for years of lost work, after the airline failed to overturn a ruling that it illegally outsourced the jobs.
On Wednesday, the full bench of the federal court on Wednesday dismissed Qantas's appeal of a July 2021 ruling that the airline had acted against protections in the Fair Work Act when it terminated about 1,680 jobs at 10 airports amid the pandemic in November 2020.
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