Fortescue Metals Group faces prosecution in Western Australia for failing to provide paperwork regarding dozens of alleged sexual harassment circumstances at its mine websites.
The Andrew Forrest-led mining large has been charged with 34 counts of refusing or failing to adjust to a requirement to offer paperwork to a WorkSafe inspector inside a specified interval with no affordable excuse.
The paperwork relate to circumstances of alleged sexual harassment at Fortescue’s Christmas Creek, Solomon and Cloudbreak mining operations, WorkSafe mentioned on Wednesday.
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Inspectors have the correct beneath WA legal guidelines to request that documentation be acquired inside a specified time interval except there’s a affordable excuse, the regulator mentioned.
The case has been listed for point out in Perth Magistrates Courtroom on March 17 and Fortescue is but to enter a plea to the fees.
“Because the case is now within the palms of the courts, no additional data might be offered at this stage,” WorkSafe mentioned in an announcement.
Fortescue has been contacted for remark.
A parliamentary inquiry final yr discovered WA’s multi-billion greenback mining business had failed to guard feminine employees from predatory behaviour, together with focused violence, stalking, grooming and threats to their livelihoods.
