Filipino workers are being trafficked into Australia to work on the North West Gas Shelf off Western Australia. “They are paid near slave labour rates by a Danish multinational [Maersk, part of A.P. Moller - Maersk] who has some of these workers earning less than $3 per hour, compared with our members on the same vessel who are earning average annual salaries of $132,000,” Paul Howes AWU National Secretary said...They’ve been brought in from the Phillipines – under what seems very dodgy arrangements - because of their particular skills, working originally on the Maersk shipping company’s Nan-Hai VI, and now working on the Maersk Discover...The contract [the workers had] signed indicated they were employed by a Hong Kong based firm called Pocomwell Limited.