Thousands of Miners Underpaid for Years | Part 2

During the June Estimates sessions, I exposed a regulator unwilling to confront the obvious – thousands of coal minders have been underpaid for years while the Fair Work Ombudsman hides behind outdated enterprise agreements and technical excuses. Miners provided evidence and the regulator ignored it. Awards required permanency and enterprise agreements undermined it. Australia’s largest wage-theft scandal, affecting an estimated 5,000 workers, continues because no one in authority will confront it. This session laid bare a system that has failed miners, failed the award, and failed it’s statutory duty to uphold a fair minimum safety net. If the system won’t protect workers, someone has to call it out. One Nation will always call it out. Transcript: https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/thousands-of-miners-underpaid-for-years/