The Uber-ised economy is delivering anxiety and danger for miners and their families, an inquiry has been told.
Wages paid to miners in regional areas are down by $400 million to $800 million because of the casualisation of the workforce, economist Stephen Whelan told a federal parliamentary hearing on job security.
“It’s a $45,000 difference on average for the individual worker and that’s somewhere between 30 and 40 per cent of mining workers in those particular regions,” he said on Tuesday.
That imposes a direct impact on the communities, as workers in that area are getting paid less income because of the way the pay is arranged and spend less in cafes, pubs or hardware stores in the regions.
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