QANTAS JOB LOSSES

TONY BURKE MP.
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3 years ago
QANTAS JOB LOSSES
TONY BURKE MP
Today is another dark day for Australia’s aviation industry.
 
This morning’s announcement is devastating for thousands of Australian workers and their families, and our thoughts are with them all. 
 
These job losses were not unforseen.
 
Labor has been warning for months what could happen to our aviation industry if the Morrison Government failed to act.

But instead of listening, the Government has spent the last few months ignoring the structural problems in the industry, hoping on a wing and a prayer that the market would sort it out.
 
The Morrison Government decided to allow Virgin to fall into administration, they decided to deny JobKeeper to thousands of essential aviation workers, and now they are too late to save thousands of jobs at Qantas.
 
Qantas has today joined Virgin Australia’s independent administrators in calling for an extension of JobKeeper beyond the September deadline. 
 
Scott Morrison must stop delaying the review of JobKeeper and give workers and businesses alike the certainty they need to plan beyond the September “snapback” deadline.
 
Aviation workers are being left out and left behind by the Morrison Government’s botched handling of JobKeeper and the lack of a plan for the aviation sector.
 
We’re going to need our aviation industry through the recovery, but the aviation industry needs our help now. 
 
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