The ACTU wants the Albanese governments upcoming same job, same pay laws to target major companies such as CIMIC, Qube, BHP and Qantas for using labour hire-like structures to push down pay.
The union peak body named the construction, stevedore, mining and airline giants in research released on Tuesday that found Australias largest dozen labour hire providers now ranked in the countrys top 30 largest commercial employers with combined revenues of about $20 billion.
Michele ONeil said the big business was using loopholes to not pay proper wages. Rhett Wyman
The research says labour hire extends to complex, multi-tiered, opaque structures and many large listed corporates such as BHP, Qantas, Qube…
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