O.S. is just labour hire

FWC finds MEU was right about the true nature of BHP’s Operational services division

The future of BHP’s Operations Services (OS) could be in doubt following a ruling by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) that its employees are each being underpaid between $10,000 and $49,000 a year.

The Mining and Energy Union (MEU) sought a same-work-same-pay ruling in the FWC for OS’s 2000 employees, arguing that it was nothing more than BHP’s in-house la…