Sorry to rain on your parade, but the award means little outside NT and ACT. Fail to see why they should be any different.
currawong, is the GA pilots award a respondents award or common rule in the other states. As the key part here is that the Australian Workplace Relations Commission has declared it to be common rule in the NT and ATC. This means that ALL companies are legally BOUND by it or to enterprise bargaining agreements which must not be below it.
This also means an employee who accepts what he is told while employed, can put in a claim for unpaid wages etc on leaving the company. Many have done before, and won before.
Perhaps some of our ppruning legal eagles could comment on a hypothetical...
Would company A, operating in the NT and applying the award correctly, have just grounds to approach the ACC should they be aware of company B (also in the NT) running with lower overheads by ignoring their award obligations. Such a case would surely raise issues for competition laws.