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Togi i fafo e le Faamasinoga Maualuga le apili a Qantas.

E lata i le 1700 tagata faigaluega na faate'a ma vaea faamalosi e le kamupani a Qantas i le taimi o pepesi le faama'i KOVITI-19. Ae o lea ua aumaia le faai'uga a le faamasinoga maualuga, le High Court, e solitulafono le auala na faate'aina ai i latou.

Former Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce

Le sa avea ma pule faatonu o le Qantas, Alan Joyce. Source: AAP

I le faai'uga a le High Court, e solitulafono le auala na faate'aina ai e le Kamupani vaalele a Qantas le 'aufaigaluega i le 2020 i le finauga e le mafai ona totogia ae o gau le pisinisi ona o puipuiga o le faama'i.

O galuega ia na ofo e le Qantas i isi kamupani e faatinoina, ma na saunoa ai le faatonu o le Qantas Domestic, Andrew David, i aafiaga i tagata faigaluega.

"This will be very hard news for affected employees and their families to hear, especially when you consider most of them have been stood down, without any work, for months."

Na ave e le Iuni a tagata faigaluega, le Transport Workers Union le mataupu i le faamasinoga ma aumai ai le faai'uga a le Federal Court i le 2021, ua solia e Qantas aiaiga o le tulafono le Fair Work Act.

Na apili e Qantas le faai'uga ma o'o ai le mata'upu i le High Court, ma lea ua aumai ai le faai'uga a faamasino e to'a 7 na 'auato ai i fafo le apili a Qantas.

O se tasi o tagata faigaluega na vaea faamalosi mai lana galuega i le kamupani a Qantas, o le alii o Damien Pollard.

"The last three years has been horrendous for my colleagues and myself. A lot of us have struggled to gain other employment, there's been relationship breakdowns, people who've had to sell their houses. And this is justification and redemption for us today, to come away with the unanimous win - sorry, I've got a bit of emotion in my voice - a unanimous win. Seven judges of the High Court have said, 'Yep, they were in the wrong."

E le o faamalosia i lalo o le faai'uga le kamupani a Qantas e toe faafaigaluega tagata na faate'aina.

Peita'i na saunoa le sui soo'upu o le Transport Workers Union, Michael Kaine, o le vaiaso o muamua, e toe fetaui ai ma le kamupani i le Federal Court e feutaga'i ni faasalaga ma taui e totogi e Qantas i tagata na vaea faasolitulafono i le 2020.

"There are smiles on their faces - smiles on their faces - because it's been three years. Three years of hell for them and their families, and now, justice has prevailed. It's as much the fact that they have been vindicated for building the spirit of Australia, [as] that the reprehensible act has been called out, once and for all, in the High Court of Australia."

(That story by Ruth McHugh-Dillon and Naveen Razik for SBS News)



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By Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Naveen Razik
Presented by Ioane Tiperio Lafoa'i
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