Dixon tries to reassure staff

Saturday, 02 Nov, 2005 0

A report in the SYdney Morning Herald (SMH) today claims that Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon has moved to allay fears amongst staff that he is about to target wages and conditions on the back of the Governments proposed workplace reforms.

With the much hyped legislation due to be tabled in Federal Parliament today, there are union concerns that Qantas will use the changes to attack overtime and penalty rates along with worker’s redundancy provisions.

ACTU aviation spokesman Richard Watts said: “There’s a concern that if they open up new enterprises there may be a reduction in entitlements as a result of the [new industrial relations laws].”

However Dixon is qouted as saying the unions have nothing to fear. “There’s always cries that the legislation will be detrimental to individuals. Our people here do not believe that will be the case.” he said.

Qantas begins negotiations next week with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

Some good press for Mr Dixon though, with research by executive-remuneration firm Guerdon Associates finding that at $5 million, he was arguably underpaid last year!

The report, which looks at CEO’s salaries as a percentage of their company’s pre tax earnings, found that at 0.23%, Dixon was in the top tier of well performed senior executives.

“There shouldn’t be a cap on pay as long as when profits fall, their pay does, too,” Guerdon Director Michael Robinson said.

Graham Muldoon

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