Canberra First to Fall Under the Qantas Redundancy Axe

Since Qantas announced its plan to cut 5000 jobs employees of the airline at Canberra Airport have been faced with uncertainty about the future of their jobs.

In early March Qantas offered a round of redundancies as part of its $2 billion cost-cutting program.

Only a few Canberra based employees have put their hands up for the voluntary redundancy packages. Klaus Pinkas, the sub-branch secretary of the Transport Workers Union, says that workers are still largely in the dark about how they may be affected.

Report by Elysia Roberts.