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Biggest employersSPECIAL REPORT Biggest employers FEATURE Woolies tops biggest employers Business News’s updated ranking of WA’s largest employers highlights the increased use of casual and contract staff. SEARCHENGINE ...your key to WA business Private sector Head count 4,145 4,000 12,789 McDonalds Woolworths Australia 16,400 8,405 6,534 4,000 3,750 6,000 3,662 3,500 12,930 12,500 12,000 6,448 Bankwest 4,200 3,590 3,250 which show employment fell by WA, and the country as a whole. 2.5 per cent to 169,000 people. The top four employing indus- Woolworths is substantially tries in WA are health care and Our safety performance larger than its principal compet- social assistance (160,000 jobs), itor Coles Group, which employs construction (143,000), retail was impacted by rapid growth 12,500 people in WA and 113,000 trade (133,000) and education nationally. (104,000). in labour mobilisations in our Wesfarmers had been ranked Each of these sectors makes as the state’s (and Australia’s) a disproportionate contribution maintenance business - Rob Velletri largest private sector employer, to employment in WA, where the Mark Beyer but that changed with last year’s total number of jobs increased to They are part of a growing The inclusion of construction [email protected] divestment of Coles Group. 1.36 million in October. industry in WA, according to workers means the numbers @AMarkBeyer Wesfarmers is still a very large That’s up by 0.8 per cent over data compiled by the state would have received a substan- OOLWORTHS has employer in WA, with 12,789 the year, compared to 2.4 per cent government’s Department of tial boost from the big projects grown to become people across its various oper- growth at a national level. Mines, Industry Regulation and currently under way, such as W Western Australia’s ations, which include retailers One key difference in employ- Safety. BHP’s South Flank mine, Fortes- largest private sector employer, Bunnings, Kmart and Office- ment patterns between WA and The department said WA’s cue Metals Group’s Iron Bridge with 16,400 people on its books, works and various industrial the rest of the country is that WA mining industry employed an development and Rio Rinto’s a survey by Business News has businesses. has a much higher proportion of average of 124,010 people during Koodaideri mine. found. The ranking of Woolworths, workers in the mining industry the 2018-19 financial year, up The iron ore sector remained The company behind brands Wesfarmers and Coles Group (6.7 per cent) compared to 1.8 per from 112,008 the previous year, the state’s largest mining such as Big W, Dan Murphy’s, as three of the four biggest pri- cent nationally. As well as people involved in employer, with an average of BWS and a national chain of vate sector employers in WA minerals extraction and pro- 60,112 people over the past year. 1,024 supermarkets increased WA partly reflects their dominance The big miners cessing, this figure includes In addition to Rio and BHP, employment by 6.8 per cent over in areas like groceries, liquor and Rio Tinto employs nearly people employed in mine site other big employers in the iron the past year. hardware. 13,000 people in WA while infrastructure construction, ore sector include Fortescue The WA growth contrasted It also reflects retail being one BHP has 12.000 employees and mine site surveying, transport (6,448 people), CITIC Pacific with the group’s national data, of the biggest employers across contractors. and catering. Mining and Roy Hill Holdings. FEATURE GET THE FULL LIST ONLINE businessnews.com.au/biggest-employers Not-for-profit Head count Public sector Full-time equivalent St John of God Health Care 8,227 Department of Education 39,205 Silver Chain 2,922 North Metropolitan Health Service 9,073 Activ Foundation 2,172 WA Police Service 8,933 Brightwater Care Group 2,098 WA Country Health Service 8,024 St John Ambulance WA 1,814 South Metropolitan Health Service 7,027 Bethanie 1,761 Department of Justice 6,306 Amana Living 1,634 East Metropolitan Health Service 6,297 Universities Full-time equivalent Department of Communities 6,012 Curtin University 3,288 Australia Post 2,950 University of Western Australia 3,006 Water Corporation 2,800 Edith Cowan University 1,887 Western Power 2,750 Murdoch University 1,715 SEARCHENGINE ...your key to WA business Gold mining is another big 2,000 in June 2018 to around 6,100 maintenance business on the The department said a dispar- employer, with 31,422 people, currently. back of significant growth in ity between the two numbers % but its dispersed ownership and That includes 2,300 people who activity, and an increase in sub- had emerged over the past capital-intensive nature means it joined the group via its recent contractor numbers across the decade as the uptake of contract does not feature among the big- acquisition of BGC Contracting, business,” Mr Velletri said. employment overtook full-time WOOLIES’68 WA gest employers. and a further 300 through its The group employed 1,149 sub- employment methods. For instance, Kalgoorlie Con- purchase of RCR Tomlinson’s contractors at the end of June, in In June 2009, the disparity EMPLOYMENT solidated Gold Mines, which mining and heat treatment addition to 5,942 employees. between FTE and head count was GROWTH PAST operates the famous Super Pit, divisions. Mr Velletri said the group had just 1.8 per cent. employs 700 people. Monadelphous has also adopted a number of strategies The department said that YEAR Alumina is also a big employer expanded after winning extra to address these issues, includ- figure now stood at 25 per cent. with 7,395 people. work on mining, LNG and infra- ing strengthening subcontractor Fortescue Metals Group’s cor- Its largest campus is at Mid- The two big producers in this structure projects, primarily in management, ramping-up safety porate social responsibility report land, where it employs 2,236 sector are Alcoa of Australia WA and Queensland. leadership programs and bol- includes a detailed breakdown people at the co-located public (3,750 people) and South32 sub- Its national workforce totalled stering management of its that sheds further light on this. and private hospitals. sidiary Worsley Alumina. 7,091 people at the end of June. maintenance division. Out of FMG’s global workforce, Midland is now larger than its The state government data Like most contractors, its A Monadelphous spokes- nearly 1,400 people or 21 per cent flagship Subiaco hospital, where on mining sector employment workforce has varied widely in person told Business News the of the total are categorised as employee numbers were steady includes people involved in activ- tandem with commodity and company had also increased its either labour hire or casual staff. at 2,077. ities such as construction and investment cycles. graduate and apprentice intake. A similar trend has emerged in Across the SJoG group, there catering. Its national workforce peaked “We’ve had a big year at Mona- the healthcare sector. has been a large shift in type of The latter group includes at 7,418 in 2013 before dropping to delphous, which has seen our The largest employer in this employment. companies such as Sodexo and just 4,438 in 2016. total workforce grow to almost space is the state government, Since 2015, when it first pub- Compass Group, which provide The rapid increase since then, 4,000 here in WA,” the spokes- which employs more than 30,000 lished a detailed breakdown, the an array of support services such in conjunction with a general person said. people (full-time equivalent proportion of full-time employ- as cleaning, catering, laundry and tightening in the market for basis) across its four regional ees has dropped from 24 per cent maintenance at mine site camps. skilled labour, has put pressure Contracting health services (see table). to 20 per cent. Sodexo, which services all on the group, according to man- The increased use of contract Other big employers are not- Over the same period, part-tim- Rio Tinto camps, employs 4,200 aging director Rob Velletri. labour was a trend highlighted for-profit group St John of God ers have dropped from 64 per people in WA while Compass In the company’s results by the Department of Mines, Health Care and ASX-listed cent to 58 per cent. employs 4,145. briefing earlier this year, he Industry Regulation and Safety Ramsay Health Care. The offsetting growth has been Construction activity includes said the group had experienced in its latest analysis. St John of God employs 8,227 in casual employment, which has contractors such as Monadel- a disappointing increase in its After stating that WA’s mining people in WA and a further 6,300 grown from 12 per cent to 22 per phous, NRW Holdings, AusGroup recordable injury frequency industry employed 124,010 people people in other states. cent of the total workforce. and Civmec. rate. last year, it said this figure should NRW has grown rapidly over “Our safety performance be used with caution, as full-time SEARCH Woolworths the past year, with its national was impacted by rapid growth equivalent (FTE) employment in There are 1,259 results from our index of 101,275 articles, workforce lifting from about in labour mobilisations in our the same period was 98,634. 10,079 companies and 37,921 people FEATURE BIGGEST EMPLOYERS SEARCHENGINE WA’S LARGEST EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ...your key to WA business RANKED BY NUMBER OF WA CONSULTANTS, THEN BY TOTAL STAFF IN WA Change from Year Total No.