Qantas sells some of its catering arm to Gate Gourmet

[markis10]

Qantas has sold a portion of its catering business that supplies meals to international airlines that fly to Australian airports to the country’s second-largest airline caterer, Gate Gourmet.
The airline has offloaded for an undisclosed price its catering facility near Sydney Airport called Riverside – one of two plants in Sydney – and another in Cairns, which employ about 370 people between them. Qantas said those staff affected would ‘‘transition’’ to Gate Gourmet.

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[Foreigner]

This article in The Cairns Post:

Cairns-based Qantas caterer assures staff it's 'business as usual' - Local Cairns Business | cairns.com.au

I hope it will be better than "business as usual".

 

[Limewood]

So staff can move over to the new owner, lose their Qantas travel entitlements and none get the golden handshake from the look of it, not a real good changeover deal to me.

 

[simongr]

So staff can move over to the new owner, lose their Qantas travel entitlements and none get the golden handshake from the look of it, not a real good changeover deal to me.

If they are changing entitlements then they will most likely need to change the EBA(s) that their people are under. This would equally apply to redundancy entitlements. i would expect them to transition with continuous employment as well.

 

[Limewood]

i would expect them to transition with continuous employment as well.

I believe that is the case. I have a friend works at Qantas catering not heard from him past few days or so he was hoping for the Golden Handshake, said losing the Qantas cheap flights was a big thing to him.