and you think that you work for peanuts

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'Lateline has a copy of one of the men's contracts with a labour hire company called Supply Oilfield Services (SOS), showing them working 84 hours a week and earning $900 a month.'

'Dos Cordilla, Zenry Peteros and Roel Flores are waiting in the Philippines for the ombudsman's ruling on 18 months of work on oil rigs off Western Australia's coast.

They say they worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week as marine painters and general hands around a rig operated by the world's largest shipping company, Danish International, Maersk, for Woodside Petroleum's $14 billion Pluto Gas project.

Next to fully-paid Australian workers, they were earning a fifth of the minimum wage - less than $3 per hour.

"We were being underpaid because our salaries were only for $30 per day," Mr Cordilla said.

"They said the minimum wage in offshore was $400 plus allowance. They said $30 is for only one hour for them."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2....htm?site=news

Nice one, boss.

I'm aware of the distinction betwen work on Australian soil and work offshore, but even so, if I was in the same workplace as other workers for vastly different money I'd be rather annoyed, regardless of the work performed.
A crane driver rightly earns more than a TA, but $3 an hour ????