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Great migration west as resource giants follow BHP’s WA-centric hiring policy – WAtoday
Growing pressure from the state government to hire locally and hard border policies making interstate FIFO more difficult has forced resources companies to rethink their human resources policies.
In May Rio Tinto announced internally it would no longer support national FIFO as a sourcing strategy and since the pandemic more than 700 workers, or 70 per cent of its national FIFO workforce, have relocated to WA.
Both Woodside and FMG say 90 per cent of its workforce already resided in Western Australia.
Most of Woodside’s workers reside in Western Australia.Credit:Emma Young
A Woodside spokesman said a number of interstate employees had already taken up the opportunity to relocate to WA….
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