The Qantas Group has appointed a new CEO to lead its regional airline QantasLink amid a leadership shake-up. Rachel Yangoyan, who has been with Qantas for 20 years, will take over the role from John Gissing. It was revealed back in June that Mr Gissing, who has been with the Qantas Group for almost 25 years, would retire in early November as part of a number of senior management changes across the Group. He will take on an advisory role for the next 12 months.
October 20, 2023
Crown Sydney Gaming Pty Ltd is defedning a s.394 – (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Easton By Telephone AEDT (NSW Time) in Sydney (Xian)
October 19, 2023
A high-end Gold Coast nightclub unfairly sacked staff for revealing their colleague’s confidential salary in private messages, with the workplace umpire ruling the dismissals a huge overreaction. Fair Work commissioner Stephen Crawford ordered The Pink Flamingo Spiegelclub, which performs cabaret shows and other entertainment, pay its former bartender and box office assistant more than $30,000 in compensation after finding that their misconduct was not enough to justify the sack. Labor’s new ban on pay secrecy, introduced at the end of last year, did not appear to protect the employees’ salary sharing because the discussion did not involve their own pay or asking a colleague about their pay. But commissioner Crawford dressed down Project 88, the company operating the club, for falsely telling the two employees that they had committed a criminal offence by disclosing the information. “The way Project 88’s representatives presented the severity of what had occurred during the meetings on February 3, 2023 made it seem like Ms McLeod and Ms Louie had broken into Project 88’s equivalent to a ‘Watergate complex’, stolen key intellectual property secrets and posted them on WikiLeaks,” the commissioner said. “However, all they had done was privately discuss the salary rate of a friend, and the salary rate was quite unremarkable.”
October 19, 2023
The head of Qantas’ loyalty division Olivia Wirth has resigned from the job and will depart in February to “pursue other opportunities”, the airline announced on Monday. The news comes one week after retailer Myer announced Wirth was being nominated to join its board of directors.
October 13, 2023
A new general manager has been annouced to lead operations at the Dunk Island Group following the closure of overnight camping facilities and the pop-up beachside bar.
October 9, 2023
A Port Douglas tourism industry veteran has been announced as the new general manager – partnerships and events at Tourism Tropical North Queensland starting early next year. Tara Bennett, who has led Tourism Port Douglas Daintree for nine years as chief executive officer with more than 15 years of dedicated service to the organisation, said it was a difficult decision to step down but believed exciting times were on the horizon.
October 9, 2023
Colin Storrie is stepping away from the board at the end of the year. The former chief financial officer of both AMP and Qantas joining the board six years ago.
October 9, 2023
Jetstar Airways Pty Limited T/A Jetstar Airways has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute in relation to flexible working arrangements) with which it must deal before Fair Work Commissioner Yilmaz (Video using Microsoft Teams) in Melbourne (Tabakoglu)