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Qantas Wants 100 Execs To Work As Ground Handlers For 3 Months
Qantas is asking 100 executives and senior managers to swap the soft office seats and personal assistants for a three-month spell as a ground handler. The embattled airline has put an HQ SOS out, asking for volunteers. The temporary work placements will run for 90 days on a five-day-a-week basis, although there is no suggestion the executives will receive the same low weekly wage as the permanent ground handling crews. (www.msn.com) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Job shadowing has been a good idea for many years. After my shiny new chemical engineering degree in the mid 70's I joined Shell to work at one of their major refineries. First 3 months - work on shift with operators and learn what they do and how (in future) you can help them do it. You are being taught how to be an good operator with the clear intention that you will never actually be one: therefore unions have no problem. This was normal for Shell worldwide. Since baggage handling is a very physical exercise where the physical parts could not be done by 100 older people, Qantas are clearly taking about working the shift with real baggage handlers to supplement them, not replace them. I think that MSN reporters are getting it wrong again.
Don’t blame MSN reporters. MSN merely republished an article from SimpleFlying, a portal not known for precise journalism.
Boy, what a great idea, lol, how many times I heard this from fellow employees about management who dream up things and have no idea what they are doing. Well, glad to see QANTAS stepped up to the plate. As far as the unions go, if the members like their job as is, by all means have at it, support your local union and keep on complaining. (From an old airline employee)
It's the worse thing to do. I see guys from HQ come, put on a uniform and work the front line. They cannot keep up, and have no enthusiasm for the tasks at hand. Things are going so well at Qantas with baggage delivery now that they can afford to put a roadblock in service delivery?
They should make the execs be Flight Attemdants too.
Good news, should be allply to ex alitalia too now renamed as ITA