Mining Giants Lobby Against Same Job Same Pay Implementation

CEO Tania Constable said the policy fails to consider the importance of the worker’s age, experience, expertise, and qualification. 

The world's largest dump trucks shifting earth at Citic Pacific Mining's Sino Iron magnetite iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia on Mar. 5, 2010. Amy Coopes/AFP via Getty Images

Mining giants have criticised the Albanese government’s industrial relations reforms for inhibiting economic productivity as the Same Job Same Pay rights start to take effect in November.

“From the outset, the unions have been blinkered to the unintended consequences of these perverse workplace laws, given the ultimate benefit of such incursions into Australian workplaces lies primarily with them, not the workers they claim to represent,” said Tania Constable, Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) CEO.