Shareholders at Qantas are being urged to reject the re-election of adman Todd Sampson to the board of directors of the national airline.
Ownership Matters, a proxy adviser which consults to shareholders on how to vote their shares, is making the recommendation in the interests of board accountability for the "collapse in Qantas’ reputation and public standing".
Sampson, the former CEO of Leo Burnett Australia and a panelist on the ABC TV's Gruen, is up for re-election to the board at the company's next annual general meeting on Friday, November 3.
He first joined the board in 2015.
Ownership Matters argues that Sampson, with his background in advertising, had a “heightened responsibility” for reputational issues.
Qantas has been found by the High Court to have acted unlawfully in sacking 1,700 ground handling workers and outsourcing their work.
And competition watchdog the ACCC has launched action in the Federal Court alleging Qantas engaged in false, misleading or deceptive conduct, by advertising tickets for more than 8,000 flights that it had already cancelled but not removed from sale.
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