True, if you read the Pilots' Award in its entirety, you could always come up with some small extra that we don't pay. It's a complicated document.
This is no excuse for not paying the award.
But the company I work for does pay the award fulltime rate, the required days off, the award hourly rate for casuals, and the stated minimums for duty, which is the biggest difference in wages between us and NAC.
But yet still doesn't pay the Award in it's Full. Neither does NAC. So whats the difference. Your company chooses not pay all the Award so does NAC. It's just that NAC pays a lot less at the moment.
We have to pay between 50% to over 200% more per day per pilot, depending on the duty/flight time compared to NAC. And thats the main issue!
The Main issue is what the pilots deserve not what the Company pays. Should the pilots in your company deserve the whole Award?? or just the bits that you think they deserve.
Just curious but has flying dropped since the pay increase????
Is the company hurting as a result???