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Aussies First on Huge Project

Announcement posted by DesignBuild Source 20 Jul 2012

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Local staff will be favoured over overseas workers on one of Australia’s largest ever resource construction projects, the state government of Western Australia has said.

Western Australian Commerce Minister Simon O’Brien says it is his understanding that Chevron and head contractor Bechtel ‘firmly’ intend to fill as many positions as possible with local workers for the company’s $29 billion Wheatstone Gas Project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

“I congratulate Chevron and Bechtel for taking this action at a time when there is considerable discussion about resource project proponents and their attitude to the use of Australian workers,” O’Brien said while attending the launch of the Wheatstone Jobs Facility, which will be central to Chevron’s efforts to recruit more than 5,000 workers for the project. “In my experience, project proponents are very keen to employ locally; and overseas sourcing is only pursued when no viable local alternative exists.”

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