AN160141 – Gold Mining Consolidated Award 1980
(1) An employee shall be deemed to have been made redundant if that employee's services are no longer required by the employer because the employee has become surplus to the requirements on account of technological change or reorganisation of work or production methods or down turn in the market for gold except if that employee is offered but does not accept alternative employment with the employer, whether in that employee's then classification or otherwise.
(2) Reduction of Hands:
Should occasion arise to reduce the number of employees employed, the management, in selecting those to be retained, shall give full weight to the consideration of length of service and all things being equal, shall retain those who have been longest in the employ of the company.
(3) The employer shall give three weeks' notice to the union of which an employee is a member if it is intended to terminate the services of such employee on the ground that that employee is redundant.
(4) (a) Where a redundancy is intended the employer shall confer with the union concerned with respect to the conditions to apply to an employee whose services are to be so terminated and if no agreement is reached the matter shall be referred to the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission for determination.
(b) Where an agreement is reached thereon, or these conditions are otherwise determined, the services of an employee may be terminated irrespective of whether the period of time referred to in subclause (3) hereof has expired.
