Wages progress in Australia varies wildly between occupations. At one finish, mining — on the different, well being and social help… a curious distinction.
Yesterday the ACTU launched a report myth-busting lots of the lies from the mining trade in regards to the authorities’s “identical job, identical pay” laws, designed to carry an finish to labour-hire companies paying staff beneath enterprise award ranges.
Noteworthy within the union’s report was its declare that “mining income have elevated 194% over the previous decade however wages within the trade have gone backwards 6% in actual phrases”.
Extractive trade income — particularly from oil and gasoline over the previous two years — have certainly soared, even accounting for a considerable drop in costs of commodities like gasoline, coal and iron ore over 2022-23. However mining, because the ACTU report suggests, continues to be marked by poor wages progress, even whether it is by far the best-remunerated occupation in common weekly earnings information.
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