Human Asset Expansion In Mining 2012

The event will highlight the key issues faced by coal mining industry like the challenge of managing people, as a result of fundamental changes in new work forms and employment relations in recent times. The shortage of skilled labor is one issue, creating a bottleneck effect on further expansion and development of coalmines in the Bowen Basin. Effective management of contract workforce is another issue, as the level of contract labor used by the mining companies specially coal firms has been steadily increasing for the past few years. However, managing this group of peripheral workforce is beyond the traditional framework of managing employment relation.