A judge has ordered the new CEO be directly involved in compensation talks after Qantas lost its High Court appeal over the outsourcing of ground crew jobs.
Alan Joyce and Philip Lowe are wildly dissimilar. Even so,both the institutions they have left have been accused of operating without sufficient sensitivity.
Plutocrat begets a Technocrat.
Since he left Qantas Alan Joyce’s behaviour as chief executive has increasingly been portrayed as a bull in a china shop,and now it falls to the Qantas board to explain why it allowed him to rampage for so long doing incalculable damage to the national carrier’s reputation and future earnings.
In what unions hailed as a “great day for working people”,the High Court unanimously ruled against Qantas over its COVID-era outsourcing of 1700 ground staff.
With things are going from bad to worse for Qantas,politicians and High Court judges should reconsider accepting the perks on offer from our once beloved national carrier.
Qantas is just the latest and most egregious case of Big Business Behaving Badly.
During open season on celebrities.
A senior Qantas executive has resigned,following a torrid three weeks for the airline business while it awaits a key legal ruling following its High Court appeal.
The Spirit of Australia,by government decree,was profit maximisation. Joyce was acting within that spirit.
The day she became Qantas CEO,Vanessa Hudson flew in economy class. She knew her every move was being watched.