I’m sure there are legitimate uses for contracting pilots, but I have personally seen GA employers do some dodgy stuff with sham contracting including:
- Employing pilots as ‘contractors’ (ABN required) to avoid paying super, avoid liability. Legal action forced the employer to pay super (kicking and screaming). Pilots remained as ‘contractors’ despite essentially being casual employees.
- Below award pay and conditions written into the ‘contract’ for casual employees. Existing employees being asked to sign new ‘contract’ with below award pay and conditions. No allowances because it’s not in the ‘contract’
GA award pay isn’t much to begin with. But these greedy white-liverd dogs can’t help but write up cow handed ‘contracts’ just to squeeze a little bit more profit out of people. All your employees hate you, even if they’re smiling.
You can’t ‘contract’ your way out of basic minimum obligations per the award.
I’m not commenting on the above skydiving job because I know nothing about it.