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Qantas ordered to compensate hundreds of underpaid workers
Qantas was ordered to pay A$7.1 million to hundreds of workers who were underpaid for years.
Qantas has miscalculated the pay of about 600 workers from June 2011 to June 2019.
The Fair Work Ombudsman said Qantas came forward and admitted the error last year.
The marketing, corporate and administrative staff were paid according to their individual contracts of employment, rather than collective bargaining agreements in place.
It meant some workers lost out on minimum wages, overtime, their annual leave entitlements and superannuation.
As well as the back pay, workers also received an additional payment of $1,000.
"Qantas came forward and admitted to breaching the Fair Work Act for several years and significantly underpaying hundreds of its employees several million dollars," said Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker.
"The court-enforceable undertaking creates a robust process where an independent expert will verify that employee back payments are correctly calculated and paid by Qantas."
"We take our obligations as an employer very seriously and have worked with the Australian Services Union and Fair Work Ombudsman to fix this," said Qantas Group Executive Rob Marcolina.
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