Qantas

I would suggest you can create jobs anywhere if you have the need to employ people.

And I do agree with you that other airlines employ Aussies and have created local jobs. However they pay thier Aussie employees less than Qantas, are not being forced to guarantee jobs and only operate their local domestic activites from Australia. Thier international operations and staff are based offshore. I do not believe Qantas is suggesting they would move thier domestic operations offshore....

I'm not sure you could put employees in the developed Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia, HK etc) in the slave labour market either. Just because they are relatively cheaper does not mean they are exploited.

As for your question - I work in the private sector for a publically listed company and my job is certainly not secure - whilst my employer sees benefit in employing me, I have a job. If the company is performing poorly, the share price is down, I am made redundant, or my boss wakes up one morning and decides he does not like me I could easily find myself on the street.

I have to fight every day to ensure I am seen as value to the company I work for and my performance is clearly measured against that.

I would suggest that any employee of Qantas that has a similar attitude and work ethic (no matter what they do) would likely have a much stronger gurantee of a job than any forced agreement would deliver.

Bit old.

www.askcaptainlim.com/salary-propilot-78/307-singapore-airlines-pilots-salary.html

Cars must be really, really expensive in Singapore. Still $AU90K is kind sad for an A380 Pilot.

Where am I going with this? Qantas.

The $AU is so high because of mining, right? And what affects Qantas more than a high $AU? Only Icelandic volcanoes.

I blame, partially, the failure of the Super-Duper-Resource-Mining-Profit-Badly-Named-Tax.

Gotta love the comments on Q&A on ABC right now.

Govt Minister Kate Ellis (?) gets a question - "your Govt implemented legislation, Quantas has used it and followed it blah blah. Now your Govt is having a sook about it (being used that is)..."

Her reply - "well we'd have hoped they would use clause 123456, as we have used it...."


Dopey woman. The whole idea is not that you HOPE they MAY use it the way you intended. Big business always look after themselves and the almighty dollar. Govt's should not "hope" companies do certain things. The whole idea of legislation is to FORCE all people and corporations to do a certain thing. But you people wrote the legislation really fkn badly.



Typical Labour socialist idealistic crap, come up with anything to counter what Liberal has on offer ... just to get voted in... and then in fact it does not work.
Bit like their recent immigration stuff that has been a dismal failure.

Real easy to wave a placard and be president of the student union at some Uni - not so easy running a country, is it people?

eerrrmmm... could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that section was written by the former Liberal government Mark. As was most of the Fair Work act. Basically, all Labor did was loosen up a few odds and ends in the old Serfchoices act and give it a new name.