澳大利亚Roy Hill员工面临降薪
2015-06-26 11:46 来源: 我的钢铁网
四年前,Roy Hill与韩国浦项钢铁、日本丸红及台湾中钢集团合资开发铁矿项目。然而迄今为止铁矿价格已经下跌70%。面对低迷的大宗商品形势,Roy Hill的工人正面临降薪的威胁。
日前该公司声明表示其减薪幅度为5%-10%不等,主要针对高级管理层,占据公司员工一半之多的低薪资员工的薪资则不会受影响。
而相对于Roy Hill公司的降薪不裁员政策来说,其他已经投产的矿山(如Atlas、BC Iron及Arrium)则不得不通过裁员来降低成本。
有分析师认为铁矿石市场的低迷主要是由于产业巨头淡水河谷、力拓及必和必拓高估了中国对进口铁矿石的需求。然而在目前供过于求的形势下,Roy Hill仍将于9月起释放5500万吨产量。
中国港口库存的下降对铁矿石价格回升有推波助澜的作用,四月份以来,铁矿石价格已从46.70美元/吨回升至62美元/吨。然而,由于市场持续供大于求,高盛仍预测铁矿石的价格将会再次跌破50美元/吨。
Workers at Australia's Roy Hill iron ore mine face pay cuts
Workers at the $10 billion Roy Hill iron ore mining project owned by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart face a drop in salaries as a way of preserving jobs as the sector reels from low commodity prices.
Iron ore prices have slumped as much as 70 percent since construction of the mine began four years ago in partnership with South Korean steelmaker POSCO, Japan's Marubeni Corp and Taiwan's China Steel Corp.
We felt it was more important for our people to retain their jobs rather than pursue workforce reductions as a cost-saving strategy in response to market conditions," Barry Fitzgerald, chief executive of Roy Hill Holdings Pty Ltd, said in an email to Reuters.
Analysts blame the downturn on a massive rise in production due to overestimates of China's appetite for imported ore by sector titans Vale of Brazil and Australians Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
Amid the supply glut, Roy Hill is set to release a further 55 million tonnes of ore into the market, starting in September.
The salary cuts will range from 5 to 10 percent, according to the statement.
Executives and senior management will take the biggest cuts, but there would be no salary reductions for employees on lower pay scales, who account for about half the workforce.
Fitzgerald said the pay cuts would enable the company to retain "family-friendly" work rosters preferred by staff flying in and out of the mine site, where work was 85 percent complete.
Other Australian miners already in production, including Atlas Iron, BC Iron and Arrium, have cut jobs to reduce costs in response to the downturn.
Fortescue Metals Group - three times the size of Roy Hill - refinanced $2.3 billion of $9 billion in gross debt in April after agreeing to pay a higher yield amid investor concern about the state of the iron ore market.
A fall in stockpiles at China's ports has fueled a recovery in iron ore prices from a low of $46.70 a tonne in April to around $62 a tonne..
However, Goldman Sachs expects prices to slip again below $50 a tonne because of the continuing oversupply.