With the election campaign in full swing, the Mining and Energy Union has released an updated version of a report commissioned in 2020 from the McKell Institute, showing how "casual" mineworkers are doing the same work as their directly employed counterparts but earning 30 to 40 per cent less, while lacking job security, sick leave and holiday pay.
At the time of the original 2020 edition, the union was fighting a series of Fair Work Commission and Federal Court cases over the rates paid to labour-hire miners across the NSW and Queensland coal industries.
