Premium Content Subscriber only Veteran miner Peter Guinea and his fellow teammates have been called into a meeting with the site superintendent during the COVID-19 lockdown. He says the superintendent tells them they have crunched the numbers and there is going to be people laid off at the mine site, specifically, labour hire workers. It's June 2020 and they are given assurances that it probably won't happen for three months or so. Mr Guinea speaks up, asking the superintendent if fly-in-fly-out workers would be told they had lost their job before they flew home. This way they could collect their work boots and clothes before they left.