Senators to grill Qantas at inquiry

Senators to grill Qantas at inquiry
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Senators will grill Qantas chief Alan Joyce over the airline's decision to shed 5,000 jobs at a hearing on Friday.

Labor and the Greens successfully established the inquiry after Qantas announced the job cuts, and the government introduced a bill to remove foreign ownership limits in the airline.

The legislation has cleared the House of Representatives, but looks set to fail in the upper house.

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said she hoped the Qantas boss would be forthcoming with the inquiry about the true state of the airline's financial woes.

The minor party will grill the Qantas chief about his plans for the thousands of employees on the chopping block.

"Where did Mr Joyce get that figure from?" Senator Rhiannon told ABC radio on Friday.

"A real concern is that the strategy here is to talk about 5,000 jobs, many of them will go, but then re-hire and it will be on reduced wages and conditions."

The Greens oppose easing foreign ownership restrictions on Qantas and want the government to inject capital into the struggling airline to ensure it remains majority Australian owned.

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