VG - I sympathise with your position in that your operator clearly doesn't have any qualms about sending you off to do the job and if you say no they will just employ another pilot who will say yes.
But, do your customers appreciate the risks involved or are they just happy since no-one can prove it is illegal?
The rules do seem very wishy-washy and the FAA should be ashamed - when there is a spate of accidents caused by IIMC on goggles maybe they will think again.
My humble opinion is that in order to operate on NVG, the pilot must have an IR and the aircraft must be IFR fitted including an autopilot as an absolute minimum.
The thought of people doing a quick NVG course and then going flying in an R22 or similar fills me with horror.
Is it legal? it would appear not to be illegal as far as the rules are concerned.
Is is right? No way Jose