Jetconnect does, but they’re based in NZ and covered under NZ law so aren’t affected by this.
That statement was true when Jetconnect was an Airline with an AOC. It’s debatable at best in 2024.
Nowhere in the new legislation does it say that you can’t use cheap labour-hire staff to undercut an Australian agreement……unless they are based overseas.
Where the labour-hire company is based and within which jurisdiction it operates is irrelevant. FWC would focus on the actions of Qantas. Are they using labour- hire workers to undercut an Australian EBA? The answer is obviously yes.
The commission would not have to reach over into NZ law to determine that Qantas can’t use an overseas labour-hire company ( Jetconnect) to undercut the SH EBA. They would just have to determine that the work done by the labour-hire pilots ( wherever they are from) is the same work as is done by the pilots on the SH agreement.
The overseas company would then have no purpose and would probably fold, but that’s not relevant in the FWC’s decision making process.
Qantas may decide to simply keep the same Jetconnect arrangement but up the pay for tax and industrial purposes.