Counter offers are an unsuccessful strategy in long-term staff retention, Hays Resources & Mining has said.
Miners earning less than $100,000 a year are on less than the industry’s average national salary, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released recently.
A flexible work environment is just one strategy the mining industry is currently implementing in a bid to attract and recruit employees. Jessica Darnbrough writes.
As the production capacity of Australia’s mining industry continues to expand, with a record $70.5 billion in projects either committed or under construction, the professionals who work in the industry are feeling the heat.
AUSTRALIAN Mining invites editorial contributions and story ideas for its Salary Survey 2008: Attracting, training and retaining personnel feature in the August 2008 issue.
Western Australia’s resources boom shows no sign of abating in 2008, according to the latest Hays Resources & Mining report (April 2008) on salaries and employment in the industry.
In a time of booming commodity prices, salaries in the resources sector have risen at a faster rate than for any other industry, but there is a large pay gap between the sexes.
IT'S ironic that the wealthiest workers in Australia are also some of the unhappiest
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) releases latest mining economics report
ENGINEERS Media release the 2006 Engineers Australia Salary and Benefits Survey.