Labor's workplace laws is revealed to witness a firm testing process when the President of Fair Work Australia posts a union's bid to force Qantas to hike the wages of pilots employed by its New Zealand subsidiary.

The Australian and International Pilots Association will seek Qantas to pay pilots hired by its New Zealand-based subsidiary, Jetconnect, the higher wages paid to Australian-based pilots.

According to the union, Jetconnect pilots earn an average 40 per cent less in comparison to the standard Australian rate, The Australian reports.

The union estimates a Jetconnect first officer is salaried at $63,674, while a Qantas short-haul pilot in the same position earns $103,372.

The association explains that pilots working for the airline's New Zealand-based subsidiary, Jetconnect, are doing the bulk of trans-Tasman flying, however, last year the work was being operated by the higher-paid Qantas pilots.

The union's acting President, Richard Woodward, posted yesterday that the test case undertaken proved to be a positive step, as the Qantas group was witnessed to blatantly ruin Australia's industrial relations system.

"I believe the community expectation is that if people are flying on Qantas aircraft, then the pilots should be paid like Australian Qantas pilots," he added.