Tue, Dec 20, 2011
Deal Includes A Three Percent Annual Pay Raise Through
2014
Qantas and the Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers
Association (ALAEA) have reached a proposed agreement on terms and
conditions covering around 1,600 licensed aircraft maintenance
engineers. The proposal is intended to form part of a workplace
determination that the parties will ask Fair Work Australia to make
and would remain in force until December 31, 2014. Qantas and the
ALAEA submitted this proposal to Fair Work Australia on Monday as a
draft workplace determination for its consideration.
Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said Qantas was
pleased that an agreement had finally been reached and that Qantas
had maintained the flexibility needed to operate competitively in
the global aviation industry. “After such a damaging
industrial campaign, this is a positive outcome that will allow
Qantas to move forward with certainty,” Joyce said.
“The proposal submitted to Fair Work Australia is a good deal
for Qantas and its licenced engineers. However, it does not contain
any of the restrictive demands that would have handed control of
parts of the airline to the union. Throughout the negotiation
process, we have been willing to offer reasonable pay increases and
conditions – provided the union withdraw its attempts to
influence how Qantas is run. This deal was achievable nine months
ago, without the pain for customers and for employees across the
wider Qantas business.”
Mr Joyce said that the arbitration process with the pilots’
union and Transport Workers’ Union was continuing before Fair
Work Australia. “Our message to customers is that you can
continue to book with Qantas with absolute confidence,” he
said. “Irrespective of the timeframe for the Fair Work
Australia process, the unions are unable to take industrial action
for the period of arbitration and for the period of the EBA
determination – which could be up to four years.”
Details of the proposed three-year determination include:
- 3 per cent pay increase per annum
- New licensing arrangements
- Changes which ease restrictions on extended hours rosters
- Arrangements for the transition to retirement for licenced
engineers
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