April 4, 2025
Bengalla mine at Muswellbrook and Dendrobium mine in the Illawarra are the latest to win Same Job Same Pay orders.
For a full list of orders made and applications still before the Fair Work Commission, check our application tracker.
On 14 March, the Fair Work Commission issued orders covering CoreStaff and Skilled Programmed workers at New Hope’s Bengalla mine. New Hope had thrown significant legal resources at challenging the MEU’s application.
These orders will lift the pay of about 110 labour hire workers at Bengalla in line with direct employees – a pay rise of between $30,000 to $50,000 a year.
The Bengalla win followed an order in late February at GM3’s Dendrobium underground mine for Nexus workers, worth over $1.6 million in total annual pay rises for about 90 workers.
The MEU has been successful in every Same Job Same Pay application that has been determined by the Fair Work Commission so far.
Although there are still multiple applications before the Commission, we are confident that as the issues are worked through, each of our applications will be successful.
We appreciate members’ patience as these new laws are implemented.
Northern District Vice President Chad Hanson, Industrial officer Keenon Endacott and Mt Thorley Warkworth Lodge President Matt Dodd recently attended the Fair Work Commission for a hearing into our application for labour hire workers at MTW. We look forward to a speedy resolution.