Sexual abuse and violence in Rio Tinto mines, layoffs underway | EUROtoday

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Nothing to do. The state of affairs has even gotten worse. Mining main Rio Tinto has discovered circumstances of rape and sexual assault on the firm persist, in keeping with a report into firm tradition, two years after the group confronted an Australian state inquiry over poor therapy reserved for ladies.

A Western Australian state authorities report in 2022 really helpful sweeping modifications after discovering sexual harassment and assault had been widespread within the trade, detailing horrific habits in opposition to girls within the mining sector.

Since then, Australian miners, together with iron ore giants BHP and Fortescue, have taken steps to deal with sexual harassment, which has been prevalent in distant fly-in fly-out (FIFO) mining operations resembling iron ore of Pilbara.

As a part of these measures, Rio Tinto undertook a cultural evaluation in early 2022 that outlined a tradition of bullying, harassment and racism on the international mining large and really helpful 26 steps the corporate ought to take to enhance.

Two years later, an exterior progress report discovered that Rio had carried out most of those modifications, though there was nonetheless a lot work to do on the international mining firm, which employs about 57,000 individuals in 35 nations.