Is this company endeavouring to sub contract it's crewing to a labour hire company in order to avoid Pilot's Award obligations?
If so, any existing employees would need to voluntarily resign from the operation company holding the AOC, prior to signing a "contract" with the non operating labour hire company.
Why would any pilot voluntarily extinguish his/their Award rights by resigning?
And the CAO's require a Chief Pilot to be an employee of the AOC holder.