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BHP wants to bring 30,000 workers in-house – The Australian Financial Review
BHP boss Mike Henry’s desire to bring more workers in-house has not been dimmed by the Fair Work Commission’s quashing of two pivotal industrial agreements.
Mr Henrys push began in 2018 with the creation of operations services, a term that encapsulates two ASIC-registered subsidiaries of BHP that have employed people particularly in the Queensland coalfields to perform the roles on BHP mines that were previously done by labour hire firms.
While most operations services employees earn hourly wages that are lower than those on the enterprise agreement for BHPs flagship mines in Queensland, they get benefits that contractors typically do not, such as annual…
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