Mining Industry Award
Covers the broader Australian mining industry — extraction of metals, minerals, ores, phosphates, gemstones, mineral sands, uranium and other radioactive substances; processing, smelting and refining; on-lease transport and handling; on-site servicing, maintenance and repair of plant; and temporary labour services. Excludes black coal (MA000001), aluminium, oil / gas / hydrocarbons, brown coal, salt, and quarrying of stone / sand / gravel. Eight classifications from Entry Level Introductory to Level 7 Dual Trade Instrument Technician, with Level 3 Competent as the standard rate. Built around a $39.53 / week all-purpose industry allowance, cycle-work / FIFO support, and an annualised wage option for full-time employees.
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
What's built
- All 8 cl. 15.1 classifications — Entry Level Introductory ($954.90) → Level 7 Dual Trade Instrument Technician ($1,325.20), with Level 3 Competent ($1,068.40) as the standard rate.
- Industry allowance ($39.53 / week, all-purpose, cl. 18.2(b)) — paid on top of base, included in penalties / loadings / annual leave pay.
- Apprentice rates: pre-2014 single-track (45 / 55 / 75 / 88%) and post-2014 (4 stages with Year-12 split — 50-55 / 60-65 / 75 / 88) plus adult apprentice greater-of rules (Year 1 = max(80% L3, applicable %); Year 2+ = max(Entry Intro fixed, applicable %)).
- Junior rates: under-17 / 17 / 18 at 75 / 85 / 100% of adult rate, applied per-classification across all 8 levels.
- Fourteen cl. 18 allowances — industry, electrician licence ($48.61 / wk all-purpose), camp (with / without meals), cooks broken shift, first aid, leading hand (3-tier), underground, meal-OT, tool, plus the rail allowance for mainline locomotive drivers (30% of min rate per hour).
- Saturday tier — first 3 hours before noon at 150%, after 3 hours / Saturday after noon / Sunday at 200%, public holiday 250%. Continuous shiftworker overtime flat 200% Mon-Sun all hours.
- Recall minimum 4 hours at overtime rate (cl. 20.3) for non-continuous shiftworkers.
- Annualised wage arrangements (cl. 17) for full-time employees — covers minimum rates, allowances, overtime, penalties and annual leave loading; outer-limit hours required, 12-month reconciliation, 14-day shortfall pay.
- Cycle work for FIFO / DIDO / BIBO operations — annual leave includes non-working days during the period (cl. 22.5).
- Pre-2010 12-hour shift roster grandfathering (cl. 12.4(c) / 12.5(d)) — applies to BOTH existing and new employees.
Known limitations
- Overtime and penalty rates are in SUBSTITUTION not cumulative (cl. 20.4(b) / 21.4) — the resolver currently stacks penalties additively. The advanced rule is flagged but the resolver implementation is required before live payroll can rely on this award.
- Continuous shiftworker classification (engaged in a continuous process AND regularly rostered Sundays / public holidays) is not modelled as an employment subtype in the schema — the resolver must read this as a role-level attribute on the employee.
- Rail allowance is a 30% percentage of the employee's classification minimum rate, not a fixed dollar amount. The placeholder allowance row carries amount = 0 and the resolver must compute it per-classification at runtime.
- Adult apprentice greater-of rules (cl. 15.5) require the resolver to compute both candidate rates and apply the maximum.
Setup & special instructions
- The industry allowance ($39.53 / week, all-purpose) is now stored as a SEPARATE allowance row, not baked into base rates. The previous seeder pattern baked it in, which inflated every classification by exactly $39.53 / week. When deploying, confirm the resolver applies all-purpose allowances correctly — otherwise displayed gross may drop $39.53 / week per FT employee.
- Standard rate for the award is Level 3 Competent ($1,068.40 / week) — used for apprentice percentages and all all-purpose allowance calculations.
- Casual minimum engagement is 2 consecutive hours per occasion (cl. 11.6), shorter than the 3-hour default in many other awards.
- Rest period between shifts — 10 hours for non-shiftworkers, 8 hours for shiftworkers (cl. 14.3). Most awards have a single 10-hour rule.
- Meal break differs by shiftworker status — non-shiftworker UNPAID 30 min after 5 hours; shiftworker PAID 20 min for ≤10 hr shift OR 40 min for >10 hr shift (cl. 14.1).
- Roster variation requires only 48 hours notice (cl. 13.2), shorter than the 7-day default in many awards.
- Pay frequency may be weekly, fortnightly OR monthly (cl. 16.1) — most awards exclude monthly.
- • Mining
- • Mineral processing
- • Smelting and refining
- • Mining services
- • Surface mining
- • Underground mining
- • Mining maintenance trades
- • FIFO / DIDO operations
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself — Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
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