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Mascot, New South Wales, Australia, October 21, 2024 – The Qantas Group today apologises to former ground handling employees and accepts the Federal Court’s ruling on compensation and will work to expedite the payments.
The Court today set out the principles for compensation for almost 1700 former team members based on three “test case” employees.
The compensation for the three test cases for non-economic loss are $30,000, $40,000 and $100,000 based on their individual circumstances. Separate to this, for those eligible for economic loss, it will be based on the finding that Qantas would have definitely outsourced this function by the end of 2021.
These test cases will now be used as the basis to determine the individual compensation payments for each eligible individual.