{"id":154462,"date":"2025-08-18T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:06:09","slug":"federal-court-fines-qantas-90-million-penalty-for-illegally-outsourcing-ground-handling-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154462\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court fines Qantas $90 million penalty for illegally outsourcing ground handling workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Airline giant Qantas will face a $90 million penalty over its decision to illegally outsource 1,800 ground handling jobs during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Federal Court&#8217;s Justice Michael Lee on Monday said the penalty must &#8220;bear some resemblance&#8221; to the maximum $121 million \u2014 and should be no less than $90 million, which is 75 per cent of the maximum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He said $50 million of the penalty should be paid to the Transport Workers Union (TWU).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It follows a 2020 decision by Qantas to outsource its ground handling workforce, which the Federal Court later found to be illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The TWU had called for the airline to be fined a maximum of $121 million, in addition to <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-12-17\/qantas-agrees-to-120-million-compensation-payout-deal\/104738456\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the $120 million in compensation<\/a> it&#8217;s required to pay the affected employees.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airline giant Qantas will face a $90 million penalty over its decision to illegally outsource 1,800 ground handling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10314,4740,90189,13021,17342,4140,90196,53534,90191,90190,50,90193,31556,36701,30304,90192,90194,90195,15742,22171],"class_list":{"0":"post-154462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-airlines","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-compensation","13":"tag-covid-19","14":"tag-fair-work-act","15":"tag-federal-court","16":"tag-federal-court-fines-qantas","17":"tag-ground-handling","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-outsourced-workers","20":"tag-outsourcing","21":"tag-penalty","22":"tag-qantas","23":"tag-qantas-reputation","24":"tag-record-penalty","25":"tag-twu","26":"tag-union","27":"tag-workers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115047090374279334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}