Anyone else who knowingly committed an illegal act at work would be fired. But if you're CEO, you get a $25m bonus. We need to legislate against this.

The new Qantas CEO, Venessa Hudson, was the CFO at the time all this went down… She should be held accountable along side that grub Joyce.

Get jobkeeper and don't keep the jobs? Disgraceful behavior.

I remember the days when QANTAS was a brand we as aussies were proud of. You felt a sense of love towards the brand, especially when you were overseas and you saw the iconic red tail. It’s been hijacked by corporate thugs and used for their pathetic, selfish benefits with zero consequences. Absolutely disgraceful.

This is basically how a MONOPOLY business behave. Australia needs a strong 2nd carrier.

Well, government keeps siding with Qantas with everything competition wise anyway. Virgin got absolutely socked by AU govt in basically every dispute with Qantas. Australia deserves the monopoly it has because the government is so protective of Qantas.

Restart Ansett, East West, Compass. IMO

The only regret Qantas feels is that they won't be able to pull this crap with their work force again.

Make Alan Joyce personally pay this fine with his own net worth! Reinstate the back pay plus interest, as well as their jobs!

Umm... yeah... never gonna happen...

So does the chairman to

There was a mistake in the Qantas announcement. They meant to say they are sorry the high court made the decision they did, not that they are sorry about their conduct. After all, qantas have fought and appealed this tooth and nail all the way to the highest court in the country. Hardly the behaviour of someone who regrets their actions. Most normal people and companies dont need the high Court to proxy as their moral compass. Joyce needs to hand back his board approved resignation $25m powerball win. The chairman and the board need to resign. Senior management need to be fired and the CEO chair needs fresh, new blood, from outside the tone deaf qantas executive echo chamber. Preferably an Australian and a pilot, who understands the heritage and place qantas once held in the hearts and minds of Australians

And Qantas are so happy with the way the bussiness was run, they rewarded the CEO with a ten million dollar bonus.Joyce is responsible for seriously damaging the reputation of the company.

Good decision and very clearly and very obviously the correct one.

The new CEO ( She oversaw this disgusting move ) and the Board needs to be sacked NOW and a new decent Australian with morals needs to take the lead to bring back Qantas. The little leprechaun needs to have any bonus or payout removed ! The happiness of staff on his early exit says it all.

he was running the company like a low cost carrier without the low fares

Qantas broke the employment IR rules when they sacked these company baggage handlers and caused these employees great harm and financial losses and damages and emotional distress. They all need to band together and bring a class action for damages and compensation for forfeiture of their employment and for the emotional distress and harm caused to each of these employees. The financial hardship and loss of a living wage plunged these workers into poverty. They should be compensated and given back their jobs at higher wages. The sun contractors are only casual workers and could easily be fired.

I'm just glad nobody will be held accountable. Imagine if they were.

So prior to Covid I could travel on a return flight to London for $1,300 but today I struggle to get one for $2,600 whilst Qantas blocks other airlines flying to Australia and records record profits?

Sucked in. Time to chase up all the employers that followed this route.

As an Aussie living in Asia it defies understanding why Australia still tries to run an international airline. It's stuck at the end of all routes, can never be a hub. The country is over regulated and a business hostile environment. Just punt the whole thing into touch and use Singapore, Emirates and Qatar or Thai. Any number of better options.

Goyder and the entire qantas board should be sacked

QANTAS & Jetstar lost me immediately pre Covid for a return fare from Bali of $1250 economy compared to the cancelled Jetstar fare of $350. These workers have been dudded meanwhile their former boss was the first to have his hand out for taxpayer subsidies, sold 8000 seats that didn’t exist & walks away with tens of millions. It’s a disreputable company that price gouged & engages in dodgy practices.

Serves them right! What they did was unethical

Crazy as soon as a great public owned service gets privatised, say goodby to good service & tax revenue.

Such as shame. I have shares in Qantas and I am very annoyed of how slowly overtime, it got worse and worse. Whatever happened to the friendly Australian World Class 5 star service in Qantas.

It was Privatised. Ironic eh!

When are Australian companies going to realise that this American idea of outsourcing doesn’t work . Companies don’t have the loyalty of employees who are outsourced. Look at these companies who out sourced their call centres …. Their customer service suffered. We give bonuses to easily to likes of Alan Joyce when the guys on the frontline work twice as hard to get a pitiful bonus. Joyce still got his bonus no matter if the company performed or not.

Is customer service actually a concern in Australia anymore?

Those bonusses are based solely on profits, staff and customers are literally redundant

Legacy of Joyce (in my opinion).

Don't forget that Qantas was a government owned service where it got its good name and then was privatised ....

Not just your opinion

And now for the class-action lawsuit that'll gut them for millions upon millions. If you're a share-holder I'd get out now.

That employee hit the nail on the head. He did it for his own financial gain. Alan Joyce destroyed our wonderful airline he should pay ALL reparations and forfeit all bonuses. Then deport him.

It’s not ours. It was sold off decades ago

I think Joyce is an Australian citizen, but great idea if he isn't. Grub should end up in gaol

Should've sacked the management if they wanted to save money...

We deeply regret the personal impact the outsourcing decision had on all those affected and we sincerely apologize for that. Yep lol sure you do quantas. That's why you appealed the courts decision . umm......twice . The flying Kangaroo is no longer that awsome Aussie icon we all new. Thank you Joyce and dont forget the all agreeing Quantas Board for destroying our awesome airline. Dont worry Joyce you are going down in history as the man that destroyed Quantas.

And Quanta’s you can threaten to “pass the costs on to customers” all you like. I won’t be one of your customers.

COVID and now the expectation of a recession has motivated so many companies to shed employees. Which...really means less customers spending less. That's a sure fire way to have a recession and decreased revenues 😅

I worked for Swissport too, I have nothing good to say about my experience there.

I don’t know how most people feel about Allan Joyce but honestly I really do feel sick just looking at his head. No one deserves to be paid $170,000 a week at the expense of wrongfully sacked workers. He should do time for it in my eyes.

I hope they sue qantas big time. 1700 x $280000 means half a billion at least 😂😂😂😂😂 suck eggs. Allan joyce the grub got out having ruined qantas reputation. Its ruined.

During events like the pandemic all corporations should be mandated to say to all shareholders f.off you want an investment after this no dividend until 2025 as no employees no dividends by the government like woolworths and their greed over farmers government needs to mandate in events like the pandemic no share dividend to ever be paid as employees are the blood and life of the company 😊

Well done guys. Now Qantas should also pay penalty for selling canceled flights, no matter who the CEO it is.

How can you give bonus out for failure 💁🏻‍♀️

Qantas need to take a look at themselves and restructure

It seems too little too late.....the share holders got their bonuses The departing little man got his millions .....well what did the gard working staff get???, QANTAS has proved it's GREEDY GREEDY GREEDY AIRLINE

It's really sad how shittily run the airline has been in the last few years. Used to be a huge fan. I have little hope with the same execs still running the place.

now its time to pay up qantas

Old mate should fly Virgin, APRA members get bonus free luggage for instruments and equipment.

great for when I have to do DJ Tour and play multiple gigs between cities, at least Domestically.

They didn't really win anything. Didn't get any compensation or their jobs back.

Strip Alan Joyce bonus for compensation. He made this mess, after that, sack outsourcing and get these people back.

Time to go after the premiers now , mandate sackings also illegal against the constitution. Thousands suffered and still suffering

Which part of the constitution did it go against?

Why are we not surprised?!

The whole board should be ousted

They dont even have to pay back the billions they got in jobseeker...

Alan Jones should be sue billions of dollars from his own pocket and so does the chairman to because they made extra money from covld 19

Strip all the management of there bonus it wasn’t just Alan

Qantas was once a great Airline gone to the dogs . Its greed will spell its end .

Alan Joyce can personally cover all the expenses.

Canberra...omg..English prisoners still being punished by the Crown.

Why is QANTAS guilty of unlawful layoffs, and not TAFE NSW?

I won’t be flying Qantas anymore ..

Don't fly Qantas & Jetstar

Joyce has to pay.

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Just Disgraceful Qantas

I used to work for swissport. They are horrible

Hopefully hospital workers are next. Although the lefty union was all for the sackings.

So you support Qantas against the unions? There are people like you who will *_always_* take the wrong side.

I bet Joyce and his buddies got a nice little sweetener for his latest 787 order too

Sorry only because they got caught...

this is why we need rail alternatives... Raise the prices of tickets beyond the bargain bin prices... pay workers fairly, will it have less people wanting to fly? yes, but having expensive airbuses fly at the exorbant prices to others so that you can get from Melbourne to Sydney for $79 is just way too cheap.. take a bus or a train, make the train faster and cheaper... This is just disgusting, and people that are rich believe "it's the way of life, unions are getting in the way" well, true, but are you sure you want to have the new slave labour but instead of ownership that's the problem, it's the promise of "we will settle your debts... for a contract with us for 5 years" but then turn around and have terms that are wildly unreasonable.

Qantas we except the high courts decision,,,on round three ,they didn't have a choice in the matter ,

Apparently Qantas "deeply regret" the results of their actions. Third time around.

You will definitely regret when you pay series of compensation payments for your mis behaviour on this and other issues

Not the spirit of Australia . Remove that from the side of Qantas planes

And what did the ABC ever do? Nothing.

What do you think they should have done?

I like it deport him,but where. Scotland does not want him back😀

Jetstar is the pits.

Good result. Next go after Qantas for mandatory vaccinations. Get Joyce the job jabber on the stand.

Allan joyce gets a big payout while his staff get the sacki it is not right allan u are basted fullstop

The flying rat still won by not having to reinstate there jobs! And jetstar has taken over many Qantas routes so you argue that qantas outsourced to cheaper jetstar flight crew cabin crew flight destinations ! So qantas still won by default

pay up time

stop giving qantas business. vote with your wallet

I'll never fly QANTAS ever. Fug that pathetic airline.

Such as shame. I have shares in Qantas and I am very annoyed of how slowly overtime, it got worse and worse. Whatever happened to the friendly Australian World Class 5 star service in Qantas.