Company: SQM
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000909037-25-000020
Chunk: 87

Company: CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 87
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 ensuring that workers and the environment are protected from hazardous substances.
Western Australia also has laws for workers' compensation, ensuring that workers who are injured on the job receive medical benefits and compensation. The Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023, administered by WorkCover WA, provides a framework for compensating workers for work-related injuries and illnesses.
Labor and Human Rights
The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and associated Regulations (2009) provide a legal framework for workplace relations in Australia. In addition to the Fair Work Act 2009, mining companies must ensure compliance with recent amendments aimed at improving worker conditions, particularly within the Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) sector. Recent amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) through the "Closing the Loopholes" and "Respect@Work" changes are being implemented progressively between 2023 and 2025. 
Relevant "Closing the Loopholes" changes include (i) prohibition on discrimination against employees who have experienced family and domestic violence, (ii) "same job same pay" changes that provide employees (or their representatives) with the ability to apply for a "regulated labor hire arrangement order" to require a labor hire provider to pay its employees no less than they would be paid under the host employer’s enterprise agreement, (iii) criminal offenses for intentional wage theft (including large fines and imprisonment) and (iv) increased rights of union delegates in the workplace. The "Right to Disconnect" law was implemented in 2024 to protect workers from excessive work-related communications outside of regular working hours, ensuring they have the right to disconnect from their work without facing negative consequences.
The "Respect@Work" changes introduce an affirmative obligation on employers to eliminate (i) workplace sexual harassment, sex discrimination and sex-based harassment; (ii) conduct that amounts to subjecting a person to a hostile workplace environment on the ground of sex; and (iii) certain acts of victimization. There is a particular focus on this issue in the Western Australia mining industry in light of the state Government’s "Enough is Enough: Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry" report released in September 2022. Mining companies are obligated to implement policies that prevent harassment, provide education and training to workers, and create safe, inclusive work environments.
Other relevant federal human rights legislation includes the Age Discrimination Act 2004, Disability Discrimination Act 1992, and Racial