Upholding Qantas’s decision to sack staff would weaken workplace rights, union warns
by Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#691JV)
The airline is seeking to overturn in the high court a finding that it illegally outsourced 1,700 ground handlers jobs
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 handlers jobs.
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