And it is because of 'pilots' who accept these breaches of the law that the whole industry is disappearing down the sinkhole. These 'rules' are a cost to doing business in NZ. The judgement stated, these are the minimum standards to which you must comply, the fact that you run a low cost operation gives you no more right to ignore these minimum standards than a sweat shop owner!
I have to agree, they could have avoided all of these sorts of issues by putting our colleagues in NZ on the Australian EBA as originally planned, funnily enough with the current exchange rate that would have been cheaper!
Just like Qantas, the way this company is run at times borders on negligence, and for that the staff should not need apologise or accept illegal practices no matter how minor!!