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Union advises Qantas to extend COVID-19 sick leave to stood-down cabin team

Union advises Qantas to extend COVID-19 sick leave to stood-down cabin team

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April 11, 2020 18: 33:46

Qantas has actually safeguarded its choice not to permit cabin team who established COVID-19 after being stood down access to their accrued sick leave privileges, arguing there is “no task for them to be ill from” and that a lot of them ended up being infected while on vacations.

Key points:

  • The ACTU says more than 50 direct Qantas workers have so far evaluated positive to coronavirus
  • The company is not offering sick leave entitlements to stood-down staff who later develop COVID-19
  • Qantas’s medical director stated the majority of stood-down staff with the infection were contaminated while on vacations

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling for an instant reversal of the decision, as a number of cases connected to the airline continues to grow.

More than 50 direct Qantas staff members have actually now evaluated positive to coronavirus, the union stated, with some passing it on to their loved ones.

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