JobKeeper Changes & Extended Scheme

The Federal Government has made some important changes to JobKeeper. The good news is that the JobKeeper Payment scheme has been extended until 28 March 2021 to ensure more Australians can stay in jobs and more businesses can survive the economic fallout of this pandemic. However, the bad news is that as of 28 September…

Proposed consolidation of Contact Centre Investigation & Express Parcels Freight Solutions Teams

Proposed consolidation of Contact Centre Investigation & Express Parcels Freight Solutions Teams On Friday last week, our Union received correspondence from the business that it had plans to create one integrated Express Parcels – Freight Investigation Team at its Melbourne Airport Operations. Our Union made contact with Toll and requested to meet in order to get some…

Qantas Airports Update

Qantas Airports Update Today ASU delegates and officials met with the company reps to consult about the EOIs for redundancy results and the binding offers that have been accepted, those that have not and what the process is from here on the issues of Special Leave without Pay and temporary conversion from Full time to…

Qantas and Jetstar decide to put out to tender some Airports ground operations work

Qantas and Jetstar decide to put out to tender some Airports ground operations work On 25 August 2020, Qantas Group made the shocking announcement that it intends to consider outsourcing Australian Airport ground operations performed by Qantas Airlines, QGS and Jetstar Services staff working in ramp, baggage handling and fleet presentation at 11 Australian Airports.…

Qantas EOIs Update

Qantas EOIs update Expressions of interest for redundancy, leave without pay and also redeployment have now gone out in most corporate areas – below is a table that tells you when the EOIs went out to affected employees and when the EOIs are due back. Not all areas in these business units are affected but…