Overview

• The ruling covers labour hire staff at Saraji, Peak Downs and Goonyella Riverside, bringing their wages in line with directly employed coal miners.
• Each of the 2,200 affected workers will receive an average pay boost of $30,000 under Australia’s 2023 same job, same pay legislation.
• This marks the seventeenth successful Fair Work Commission application by the Mining and Energy Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union.
• BHP’s attempt to classify its in-house workforce under a service-provider exemption was rejected by the commission.
• Industry groups warn that a company-wide rollout of the ruling could risk thousands of jobs and trigger calls to amend the pay parity laws.