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2,500 sacked Qantas staff ‘humiliated’ as outsourcing begins – Yahoo Finance Australia
Thousands of ground handling workers have been dumped and replaced to “unlock efficiencies”.
Qantas have fired staff in a bid to cut costs amid the international travel ban. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)
Employees let go by Qantas have been left distraught and flabbergasted as the airline formally inks contracts with new suppliers to outsource their jobs.
Qantas announced that it would be slashing a combined 8,500 jobs from its workforce amid reduced or halted international and domestic travel during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
CEO Alan Joyce said in June 2020 that 6,000…
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