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Redundancies in Holding Pattern at Qantas

Details

Published on Wednesday, 06 August, 2008

ASU reps met with Qantas Group General Managers for People from most Qantas business segments on Friday 1st August 2008 to try and get a handle on the ASU areas that are being targeted for redundancies as a result of the recent announcement.

Unfortunately all we have is very, very high level numbers and an indication that Qantas is targeting other areas like Flight Attendants and offshore offices and non EBA management. But no real details are forthcoming save to say that whatever is decided has to be finalized by December 2008.

What do we know?

Here is some high level information that we do know.

Qantas Airways – including Flight ops, Cabin Crew, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Pricing, FNOP – around 700- 750 redundancies will come from this segment. Around 400 are flight attendants.

100 offshore redundancies in Tucson and London have been announced with a further review of other areas being undertaken.

Sales & Marketing is unlikely to be affected in our areas. Pilots may have hours reduced or leave introduced.

The company is reviewing areas related to cabin crew and tech crew which may have redundancies.

In other areas the company is looking at accelerating annual leave and unpaid leave rather than redundancies.

Shared Services – IT, Property, Payroll, Transport, People –

Accelerated leave has been offered to staff. There are significant numbers of contracting – between 150 and 200 – they will be targeted before staff redundancies.

Risk Assurance – Office of CEO, OHS, Audit – Expect an expression of interest process and cuts to be much smaller than last time. Hope to utilize accelerated leave. Management more likely to be targeted.

Airports & Catering – Cuts will not be from operations – only expect around 50 from ASU areas but not finalised yet. Executives more likely to be effected.

Engineering – A review is underway – ASU roles not likely to be effected.

Qantas Holidays & QBT – The change in roles in QHols and redundancies count in the total number of redundancies.

Freight – No numbers available as yet, expect very few in ASU areas.

What’s next?

We expect the company to put expressions of interest for leave out shortly including special unpaid leave opportunities (this will be for periods of up to 12 months starting before December 2008 and will allow those who are granted this to utilise staff travel while on unpaid leave).

We also expect to hold meetings with each segment when announcements or details are available – this will also involve relevant ASU delegates.

At the moment we are just waiting to see what’s next, so watch out for more updates.