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Buyers hover as administrators plot course to save Rex

Embattled Rex has received significant interest from potential buyers, administrators say, as the regional carrier battles to stay in the air.

AAP

As many as 360 workers sacked at Rex with hundreds more jobs to go

Employees reportedly told the airline will no longer operate flights between capital cities

The Guardian - AU

Bonza reaches end of tarmac as budget carrier wound up

Creditors have voted to liquidate embattled airline Bonza with more than $110 million believed to be owed to creditors, workers, landlords and the tax office.

AAP

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Staff to remain stood down at troubled airline

More than 300 Bonza workers will wait two more weeks to know if they will keep their jobs as talks with prospective buyers for the embattled airline continue.

AAP

Bonza enters voluntary administration after abruptly cancelling all flights across Australia

Passengers were earlier left stranded as discussions took place on ‘viability of business’

The Guardian - AU

Uber ride-share rival Ola hits the brakes in Australia

Ride-share company Ola will end its operations in Australia after six years, warning customers of the closure in an email.

AAP

Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka steps down after nearly four years in top role

Hrdlicka’s abrupt departure comes as airline’s owners plan to push ahead with relisting on stock exchange

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Hungry Panda delivery rider launches legal action against company claiming loss of work after protesting pay

Data seen by Guardian Australia shows Zhuoying Wang gets between 30 to 70 orders per shift but this dropped down to zero around the protest

The Guardian - AU

Virgin should get rights to extra Bali flights over Jetstar, Transport Workers Union says

TWU backs Virgin over Qantas’s budget carrier, citing former’s commitment to employing locally based crews in submission to International Air Services Commission

The Guardian - AU

Flight delays loom as Virgin staff threaten stoppages

Cabin crew staff at Virgin Australia have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking industrial action as negotiations with the airline hit a wall.

AAP

Virgin signs deal with ground staff, cabin threat looms

Virgin Australia has agreed to a new deal with ground workers, but still faces the prospect of industrial action with cabin crew poised to strike.

AAP

‘Poverty pay’: travellers may soon face airport disruption as Virgin Australia crew close in on striking

Transport Workers Union chief says ground crew and pilots fear ‘mistakes being made due to their unsustainable working conditions’

The Guardian - AU

New workplace laws are 'life and death legislation'

Businesses across Australia have spent millions of dollars on a campaign against workplace reforms that unions say stop gig economy worker deaths.

AAP

Joyce to be summoned by Senate probe on Qantas lobbying

Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce will be summoned to appear at a Senate inquiry examining the airline's role in a government decision to reject extra Qatar flights.

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Qantas CEO to sit down with union leader, lawyers

Recently appointed Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson will need to be in the room when lawyers discuss compensation for workers the airline illegally sacked.

The Guardian - AU

Qantas CEO ordered into mediation with union to decide compensation for sacked workers

Vanessa Hudson and Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Michael Kaine to attend proceedings as penalties expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars

Al Jazeera

Australia’s Qantas illegally sacked workers during COVID, court rules

Australia’s High Court upholds earlier ruling that airline broke the law when it outsourced ground handling jobs.

The Independent UK

Australia's highest court finds Qantas illegally fired 1,700 ground staff during pandemic

Qantas Airways has lost its challenge to a court ruling that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions

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The Guardian - AU

High court rules Qantas illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during pandemic

Decision exposes embattled airline to mammoth compensation bill in major win for the Transport Workers Union

The Guardian - AU

Family of Uber Eats rider who died after being hit by truck urges MPs to pass Labor’s gig worker changes

Union helps Burak Dogan’s family lodge workers’ compensation claim after company denied them $400,000 death benefit

The Guardian - AU

‘Only at Qantas’: workers express disbelief at CEO Alan Joyce’s $10m share windfall

Unions say bonus payments, revealed to the ASX on Friday, ‘reward management for short-term thinking and cost cutting’

The Guardian - AU

UberEats food delivery driver dies in Sydney crash

The death is the second in a month and the 13th since 2017 of a transport gig worker, with calls for ‘life or death’ reforms to the industry

The Canberra Times

Protest traffic clears up along Northbourne Avenue, parliamentary triangle

More than 100 heavy vehicles are part of a convoy to Parliament House.

Pedestrian.tv

An Uber Driver Was Allegedly Attacked By Passengers W/ Hammers While Doing A Pick Up In Qld

The attack occurred amidst calls for better safety for gig economy workers.

The Guardian - AU

Uber Eats rider killed in Sydney crash identified as Indian scholarship student Akshay Deepak Doultani

Doultani, 22, was studying a master’s in finance hoping to give his family in India ‘a brighter future’

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