In the current mining downturn, hiring instead of buying machinery and equipment is helping mine operators keep tight budgets in check, according to HRIA’s James Oxenham. Continuing tough economic...
Category - Training & Recruitment
A new study from the University of Iowa suggests managers can improve their work teams’ performance by focusing their motivation efforts on that “extra miler” instead of trying to...
A diesel fitter will spend 18 months behind bars after being found guilty of defrauding a labour hire company of $13,000 for work he falsely claimed was completed at a Central Queensland mine. Scott...
The first, of what could be many jobs, has been cut from Rio Tinto as it embarks on a program of “streamlining” the company’s operations. In a statement released this morning it was...
The Fair Work Commission is asking the public for suggestions on what kind of information they would like to be made available on a new online data analysis platform. Data from the Australian...
The Productivity Commission should seize the opportunity to reform an industrial relations system that is failing the national interest, according to Australia’s peak oil and gas industry body...
Mining jobs will be thin on the ground in the first quarter of 2015, however boilermakers, welders and diesel mechanics with experience in mining are still in demand, according to the latest Hays...
A mine worker who was caught smoking underground, sleeping underground, and was repeatedly late for shift has (unsurprisingly) lost his unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Commission. Despite...
