‘We’re being done over’: Alan Joyce fears repeat of Labor’s 2022 jobs summit

The former Qantas CEO suggests business seeks a guarantee that the productivity summit isn’t orchestrated.

Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has warned industry leaders not to fall into the same trap as they did at Labor’s 2022 jobs summit. Bryan Cook

Phillip Coorey and John Kehoe

Jul 22, 2025 – 5.00am

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Towards the end of the first day of the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit, then-Qantas boss and Business Council of Australia board member Alan Joyce retreated to the public cafe at Queens Terrace in Parliament House.

Mid-way through the two-day summit it had dawned on Joyce that the outcome of the event, a sizeable reregulation of industrial relations laws, had been pre-ordained.

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Phillip CooreyPolitical editorPhillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence.

John KehoeEconomics editorJohn Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury.