AN160141 – Gold Mining Consolidated Award 1980
(1) Arrangement of Hours
(a) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the arrangement of hours of work of employees, in a functional unit of the employer's operations, may be fixed following consultation between the employer and its employees in the unit concerned with regard to the following:
(i) the span of hours;
(ii) starting times;
(iii) rest breaks;
(iv) finishing times;
(v) structure of shift rosters; and
(vi) work across any seven days of the weeks.
(b) In the event of agreement not being reached, a secret ballot may be conducted by the employer with the result determined by a simple majority.
(c) The Union Branch Secretary will be informed fourteen days prior to the introduction of any change pursuant to paragraphs (a) or (b) of this sub-clause.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this clause;
(i) the ordinary working hours for Mess Personnel shall be forty hours per week, inclusive of crib time and shall be worked in time shifts of eight hours;
(ii) in the case of cooks, including the head cook, the eight hours may be worked within a spread of twelve hours.
(2) Other Than Continuous Shift Employees
(a) The ordinary hours of work shall be an average of forty hours per week exclusive of meal intervals.
(b) Employees shall be entitled to a thirty minute unpaid meal break for each day or shift of work. Where afternoon or night shifts are worked, the hours of work shall be inclusive of a paid meal interval of twenty minutes on each shift worked.
(c) Six hours shall constitute a shift's work for employees engaged inside gas or water spaces of any boiler or flue in cleaning or scraping work, and for employees engaged in cleaning dust bins or dust flues. In case of boiler cleaners working broken shifts, one hour on the above description of work shall count as one hour and twenty minutes. In the case of Lancashire and Cornish boilers, all time necessary for a boiler cleaner to come out for a spell shall count as time worked in the boiler.
(d) (i) When an employee is required for duty during any meal time whereby that employee's meal time is postponed for more than half an hour, that employee shall be paid at overtime rates until that employee gets that employee's meal.
(ii) An employee shall not be compelled to work for more than five and one half hours during ordinary or overtime hours or both without a break of the customary period for a meal.
(3) Continuous Shift Employees
(a) The ordinary hours of work for employees engaged on continuous shift work shall be worked in a regular pattern/roster up to twelve hours per shift following consultation between the employer and the majority of employees affected. The total ordinary hours in a shift cycle shall not exceed an average of forty hours per week over the period of the rostered cycle.
For the purpose of assessing the total ordinary hours in a shift cycle, all time up to a maximum of 12 hours worked in any day will be taken into account.
(b) Shift employees shall work such rostered overtime as required to achieve conformity of a shift pattern or roster.
(c) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, each shift employee shall be allowed time for crib in each shift as nearly as practicable to the middle of the shift, but dependent upon the operational requirements from day to day.
(d) An employee called upon to work a regularly rostered overtime shift not more than once in every four weeks shall be paid for that shift at the rate of time and one half for the first two hours and double time thereafter.
