COAL MINERS – SALARIES

Miners win same pay for same job

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian – Page: 6 : 2-Jul-24

The Fair Work Commission has ruled that labour hire workers at Batchfire Resources’ Callide coal mine in Queensland are entitled to the same pay as directly-employed workers who are covered by an enterprise agreement. Mitch Hughes from the Mining & Energy Union contends that WorkPac employees at the mine are currently paid between $10,000 and $20,000 less than direct employees. The FWC’s ruling is the first to be made via the federal government’s ‘same job, same pay’ industrial relations reforms. Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says the ruling means that the "labour hire loophole is officially closed".

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BATCHFIRE RESOURCES PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, MINING AND ENERGY UNION, WORKPAC PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS

Strikers still eligible for productivity bonus

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 9 : 6-Oct-15

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has rejected a bid by Thiess to overturn a previous ruling on the payment of a productivity bonus to coal miners who had gone on strike. The Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union had argued that workers at the Mt Owen mine in New South Wales should be entitled to the productivity-linked component of a weekly allowance, despite being on strike for three months. The union had argued that an enterprise agrement did not specify any causes for non-payment of the bonus.

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AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, THIESS PTY LTD, CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA