The mining union is using Labor’s new laws to push up pay for labour hire by as much as $20,000. Employers say it’s just the start of disruption across worksites.
Already a subscriber?Mineworkers have made the first use of Labor’s “same job same pay” laws in a bid to rectify claimed pay gaps of up to $20,000 a year for labour hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
Batchfire, a privately owned company, mines about 11 million tonnes of thermal coal from the central Queensland mine each year, according to its website. “The consequences for Australian households are profound: less jobs, more disruption and an increase in cost of living.” “But labour hire exploitation is rife across the mining industry nationally, and we are already preparing our next applications.”The MEU has previously flagged it would pursue BHP’s in-house labour hire arms in Queensland, known as Operation Services, so they are paid the same as workers under legacy union agreements at the mine.
Ms Constable claimed the laws were not about labour hire but union access and “forcing employers to pay the same wages to individual employees, regardless of their experience, skill or qualification”.
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