Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Before moving general business notice of motion No. 757, I ask that the names of Senators Green and Chisholm be added to the motion. At the request of Senators Watt, Green and Chisholm, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) casualisation and labour hire in the mining industry have exploded under the Coalition Government,

  (ii) thousands of miners are now employed for years as 'permanent casuals', with no job security, leave or other benefits of permanent miners, and

  (iii) the Morrison Government has joined a High Court appeal which seeks to keep those miners as 'permanent casuals'; and

(b) calls on the Government to withdraw from the High Court case, so that 'permanent casual' miners can receive the pay and conditions of permanent miners.