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The miner’s long journey to devising a workplace deal for its in-house contracting division will drag on, after it was forced to withdraw a pact at the last minute.

BHP’s industrial relations guru exits Save Share The architect of BHP’s controversial industrial relations reforms has departed the company amid attempts to revive a national enterprise agreement for the “Operations Services” division and as BHP prepares to bargain a new workplace deal for its struggling Queensland coal mines. Mark Swinnerton was a key lieutenant of BHP boss Mike Henry until his exit earlier this month.   BHP vice-president Mark Swinnerton was the architect of the Operations Services strategy that has made permanent BHP employees of close to 4000 people...