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Article: Hours of work in the Australian mining industry.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- July 30, 2003
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Jul 30, 2003 (Australian Journal of Mining - ABIX via COMTEX)
Full-time employees in the Australian mining industry worked an average of 51.7 hours a week in 1997. This compares with an average of 46.8 hours in 1989. According to the 2001 Census, almost 44 per cent of all mine workers worked over 49 hours a week. A 2000 survey found that 12-hour shifts were the dominant roster arrangement at 60.4 per cent of metalliferous mines. Critics of the Australian mining industry continue to question why it has the longest hours of any sector, despite the many years of research that indicate that ...