AN160141 – Gold Mining Consolidated Award 1980
The following provisions shall apply to the employment of junior employees:
(1) "Junior Employee" means an employee under the age of nineteen years.
(2) Junior Employees, unless paid the wages prescribed in Clause 6. - Hours of Work of this Award, shall not be employed in or about any mine in a greater proportion than one to every fifteen or fraction thereof of the adult employees employed in the mine in occupations for which apprenticeship is not provided.
(3) No junior employee under eighteen years of age shall be regularly employed underground.
(4) A junior employee not less than 18 years of age may be employed underground at the wage prescribed in Schedule 1 hereof, in the following classifications -
Rock drill men in shafts, rock drill men in rises, rock drill men in winzes, shaft timber men, man in charge of explosives, scalers, plate persons, brace men.
Or any other classification agreed upon between the employer and the Secretary of the Mining Division of the Australian Employees' Union or that employee's nominee or in the event of disagreement, the matter may be referred to the Industrial Relations Commission or for determination by a Board of Reference.
(5) Rates of wages (per cent of Labourer after the first month of service classification - District Allowance per shift):
% | |
Under 17 years of age |
55 |
Between 17 and 18 years of age |
65 |
Between 18 and 19 years of age |
80 |
At 19 years of age |
appropriate adult rate |
