Australia’s richest particular person Gina Rinehart has randomly chosen 10 workers members to every obtain a $100,000 Christmas bonus.
Billionaire Ms Rinehart was feeling within the festive spirit this week when she pulled the names of 10 fortunate employees from her firm Roy Hill out of a hat.
‘Apparently final week Gina advised all Roy Hill workers to stand-by for an vital announcement,’ a supply advised the radio station final week.
An nameless employee from Roy Hill, owned by Ms Rinehart’s mother or father firm Hancock Prospecting Group, referred to as in to 6PR Radio in Perth on Tuesday to verify the hearsay.
The radio hosts mentioned the Roy Hill employee had referred to as in to the station after being a ‘bit miffed’ that one of many winners had solely been employed on the firm for 3 months.
Australia’s richest particular person Gina Rinehart has randomly chosen 10 workers members on the Roy Hill mine for a $100,000 Christmas bonus
The Roy Hill mine in Western Australia’s distant Pilbara area is the most important asset owned by Hancock Prospecting Group.
The iron ore mine introduced an enormous $3.2billion revenue within the 2021-22 monetary 12 months.
Nonetheless, the revenue after tax was nonetheless 28 per cent weaker in contrast with the earlier monetary 12 months due to falling iron ore costs.
The drop in revenue didn’t threatened Ms Rinehart’s place as Australia’s richest man or lady, together with her Roy Hill mine exporting 60million tonnes of iron ore for the primary time ever over the last monetary 12 months.
Ms Rinehart can also be the chief chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a big non-public firm with mining and cattle pursuits which owns 70 per cent of Roy Hill Holdings.
She was No.1 on this 12 months’s Australian Monetary Assessment Wealthy Record, together with her estimated fortune of $34billion placing her forward of fellow iron ore miner Andrew Forrest and Atlassian software program co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart (center) at Roy Hill, throughout a tour of the Roy Hill Mine operations whereas beneath development within the Pilbara area, Western Australia
Australia’s richest particular person Gina Rinehart (left with Hancock Prospecting chief govt Garry Korte) has reaped a $3billion revenue from her largest iron ore mine regardless of Chinese language lockdowns hitting demand for steel-making minerals
In November, Ms Rinehart famous the $2.8billion her firm paid in company tax and state authorities royalties helped fund public providers.
‘When mining does properly, Australia does properly,’ she mentioned in an organization assertion.
‘As soon as once more, the numerous contribution Roy Hill and mining generally makes to the nation has been highlighted – creating jobs and alternatives, powering the economic system via Covid and contributing to well being, defence, police, our aged, infrastructure and extra.’
Each day Mail Australia has contacted Roy Hill for remark.
Employees at Roy Hill have been knowledgeable ten fortunate staffers can be drawn at random to obtain a big money bonus heading into Christmas, with one fortunate employee solely being employed on the mine for 3 months
The Roy Hill mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara area is the most important asset owned by Ms Rinehart’s firm, Hancock Prospecting
