Experience Co CEO John O’Sullivan has rejected Australian Workers Union assertions around Skydive Australia and the small-scale use of foreign labour amongst its skydiving instructor workforce.
The Union and the company are currently negotiating an enterprise agreement.
The merging of these two issues is distracting from the core issue – our desire to reach an agreement over pay and conditions that gets our Tandem Masters back in the air doing the job they love .
“Currently, there is a global shortage of Skydiving instructors so we have applied to the Federal Government for a Labour Employment Agreement to sponsor 15 instructors per year over the next three years. Our current instructor workforce is over 130.”
“These workers will be used to bolster our capacity to serve more customers. Our application also requests assistance in sponsoring current members of our team whose Visa arrangements are about to expire.”
“The notion that we are somehow building an army of foreign workers to replace our existing team is frankly ridiculous, mathematically impossible and disingenuous. This issue has nothing to do with the EBA negotiations,” Mr O’Sullivan said.”
“The current proposal before our workforce would make them amongst the best paid workers in the industry nationally.”
“That’s the outcome the company wants. It’s also the outcome I believe the workforce wants.”
For further information:
Jill Collins, Barking Owl Communications
Email: jill.collins@barkingowlcommunications.com.au
Phone: +61 417 654 474
