BHP to test exemption limits under Labor’s ‘same pay’ laws
BHP will seek to invoke an exemption in Labor’s same job, same pay laws to ward off a potentially billion-dollar cost impost from the mining union’s landmark case against its in-house labour hire companies.
The mining giant revealed on Thursday it would argue its targeted subsidiaries Operation Services were “service contractors”, not labour hire, under a legal exemption won by the resources and energy employer group.
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