{"id":268938,"date":"2025-08-19T04:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qantas-fined-illegally-firing-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:07:45","slug":"qantas-fined-59m-for-illegally-firing-1800-ground-workers-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268938","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Fined $59M For Illegally Firing 1,800+ Ground Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian flag carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span> has been fined a record US$59 million (A$90 million) for illegally firing and outsourcing over 1,800 ground workers during the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259798\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>COVID-19 Pandemic<\/span><\/span>. This is the largest employer penalty in Australian corporate history and a big win for the workers and the Transport Workers&#8217; Union (TWU), which represents them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of a long legal battle for wrongfully terminated workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,273,8001,3080,4531,3612,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-court-ruling","category-covid-19","category-fines","category-ground-handling","category-qantas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268939,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268938\/revisions\/268939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}