Quite often in aviation you'll see the phrase RTFM when needing to look into something in more detail.
I use this analogy now- Read the contract and what has been signed.
Then come back and debate where you can go next.
Like many of us pilots in Furlough, there are parts of job contracts that you think would never be used, that are being actioned legally. As other posts say, this will be the time when these almost unthinkable clauses get used by the ATOs to wriggle out.
Good luck.