AREEA has lodged a submission to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission seeking variations to the Mining Industry Award 2010 in five key respects:

• the insertion of annualised salary provisions that would permit an
employee to be paid a salary irrespective of the actual rostered hours
worked by the employee in the pay period;
• the amendment of the hours of work provisions to provide that up to
12 ordinary hours of work per day may be worked by both shift and nonshift
workers;
• the insertion of provisions to expressly provide rostering arrangements for
the working of “cycle work”;
• the insertion of a provision to expressly permit handover working
arrangements; and
• the insertion of provisions which permit an employer to reasonably require
an employee to take annual leave in accordance with roster
arrangements.

In each case, the variations sought reflect arrangements presently operating in
practice in the mining industry.

Download a copy of the AREEA Submission here.