ABC News reports that the announcement was made today by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) which investigated the underpayments after Qantas self-reported the lapse. The FWO said Qantas had already paid out A$7.1 million to 638 employees who were underpaid between June 2011 and June 2019. In addition to the underpayment, Qantas said it also overpaid some workers a total of A$22 million. "We sincerely apologise to all our employees caught up in this misclassification issue, especially to those who were underpaid as a result," Qantas group executive Rob Marcolina said in a statement. We take our obligations as an employer very seriously and have worked with the Australian Services Union and Fair Work Ombudsman to fix this.

Source: The Standard March 13, 2020 03:00 UTC