Well jetstar legally can NOT put these pilots on a NZ contract if they do NOT have the legal requirement to fly as an FO in NZ regardless of if it is in a VH rego or NZ. If these guys can not legally work in NZ then surely the must have to go on the Australian EBA.
Unless of course jetstar are hiring people in direct conflict to the local Australian EBA.
As I've said before, Bruce thinks he is very smart but he's a money man and not an aviation man and he will find out very soon what happens when you don't treat your staff with respect and integrity, they all leave and aircraft get parked up.
We should start calling him nurse Bruce, he's putting bandaid's on deep cuts, but soon the bandaid's aren't going to stop the blood.