Qantas repays over $4 million to staff it underpaid for 8 years

Qantas repays over $4 million to staff it underpaid for 8 years

�Australian flag carrier Qantas has agreed to repay more than AU$7 million ($4 million) in wages and entitlements to head office, corporate and administrative staff who were underpaid for the last eight years, it was announced on Friday, March 13.. The announcement was made by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), an independent statutory agency of the government which investigated the underpayments after Qantas self-reported the lapse, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) said in a news report.. The FWO said that Qantas had already paid out AU$7.1 million to 638 employees who were underpaid between June 2011 and June 2019.. It is the latest in a long line of underpayment cases involving large and small Australian employers including the likes of Woolworths, Commonwealth Bank, Rockpool Dining Group and the ABC.. The FWO said Qantas had entered into a legally binding undertaking to make the back payments which were a result of incorrectly paying some marketing and administrative staff under individual contracts instead of under the relevant enterprise agreements.. The airline has agreed that all backpay will be calculated using above market interest rates, in addition to a AU$1,000 "contrition" payment per worker, said the ABC reported citing the FWO as saying..