Silverado,
You're off course here.
Forstaff Aviation is a contract company and it's employees are just that.
It's the company that obtains contracts and the employees work them as required. They are permanent employees of the contract company.
Contractor workers on the other hand, work to fulfil a contract to which they have agreed. They are not permanent employees and will be terminated under the conditions of the contract which is usually a time period, viz 3, 6, 12 months.
If you want to debate the point, it's also pointless because Jethro and Qantas employees are in the same boat confronting the same issue of "will I be without a job when all this stops?"
Taking cheap shots at people who are facing unemployment is unconscionable and you should look at both sides of this story.
Concerned LAME,
Your posts on this issue are a contradiction to your name. These are very worried people whose future is ending. Those employees at Avalon don't need being told that at all.