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A former Qantas employee now working in Dublin as a professional Irish dancer says the Australian carrier’s former CEO Alan Joyce should not be forced to help foot the bill for court-ordered compensation to ground staff he sacked illegally.

Ms Joyce Alan (main picture) made her comments following yesterday’s Federal Court ruling in a test case directing Qantas to pay three sacked workers a total of $170,000.

A spokesperson for the Aviation Luggage Hurlers’ Union (ALHU) said the ruling would now prompt payments of possibly tens of millions of dollars to more than 1,600 of its members who were sacked illegally during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mr Joyce who then outsourced their jobs.

Ms Alan – who admitted she still held a number of Qantas shares as a result of her former employment at the airline – said Mr Joyce had no responsibility to the sacked workers.

“I don’t tink his personal funds should be touched to help meet Qantas’s costs,” Ms Alan said without tinking.

“I tink he would  have only a few tens of millions of dollars to his name after buying that $20 million apartment in The Rocks overlooking Sydney Harbour last year.

“He shouldn’t have to give up one cent of the few tens of millions he has left just because what he did was illegal.”

When asked what role she held with Qantas when she was employed in Australia by the airline, Ms Alan began high-kicking her way out of the room at high speed.

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