Mining Award.

Mining Industry Award 2020 (MA000011) covers mining, mineral processing, metalliferous mining. Common roles include extraction of metals, minerals and ores, exploration and prospecting, processing, smelting and refining, on-lease transport and loading. Saturday is 150% for the first 3 hours before noon then 200% (and 200% for all hours after noon); Sunday 200%; public holiday 250%. Afternoon and night shift are both 115%, with permanent night 130%. Only continuous shiftworkers get 5 weeks of annual leave. There is no RDO clause: the 38-hour week is averaged over up to 26 weeks, with 10 to 12-hour days and heavy FIFO, DIDO and BIBO remote cycle-work. The industry allowance is built into the ordinary hourly rate that penalties are calculated on. Excludes black coal (Black Coal Mining Award), oil and gas, quarrying, aluminium and steel making, and head-office staff. Brown coal mining is excluded from this award (clause 4.3(a)(xi)), and mining, processing and treating brown coal for use in generating electricity is part of the Electrical Power Industry Award (MA000088 clause 4.2(b)).

Full-time and part-time employees are paid 150% of their base hourly rate for the first 3 hours worked on Saturday, then 200% for any hours after that. Casual employees receive 187.5% (this award applies the penalty to the CASUAL hourly rate, so the 25% loading compounds rather than adding), then 250% after 3 hours.

FT/PT employees are paid 200% of the base hourly rate (2.00x) for Sunday work. Casuals receive 250% (this award applies the penalty to the CASUAL hourly rate, so the 25% loading compounds rather than adding).

FT/PT employees who work on a gazetted public holiday are paid 250% of the base hourly rate (2.50x). Casuals receive 312.5% (this award applies the penalty to the CASUAL hourly rate, so the 25% loading compounds rather than adding). Employees who don't work the holiday receive their ordinary day's pay if it would otherwise have been a working day.

Standard full-time employees get 4 weeks of paid annual leave per year under the NES. Only continuous shiftworkers (engaged in a continuous process and regularly rostered on Sundays and public holidays, clause 21.1) count as NES shiftworkers and receive a 5th week of annual leave. Ordinary afternoon and night shiftworkers stay on 4 weeks. The 5-week entitlement comes from NES s.87(1)(b), which the Mining Award classifies eligibility for. Calculate annual leave accrual →

You are paid the greater of what you would have earned for those ordinary hours, or your minimum rate plus 17.5%. This award compares total pay, not the loading on its own. Leave loading calculator →

25% on top of the base hourly rate, paid in place of entitlements a casual does not get, such as paid annual leave and paid personal/carer's leave. Under this award the casual loading does NOT simply add to the penalty rates: check the penalty table, because a casual can be paid a different rate from the FT/PT rate plus loading.

No. The Mining Award does not include a formal RDO accrual cycle. Time off in lieu of overtime (TOIL) may still be available where the employer and employee agree, but it works differently from a formal RDO and is not automatically accrued.

Yes. Under this award, afternoon-shift work attracts 115% of the base hourly rate (1.15x); night-shift work attracts 115% of the base hourly rate (1.15x); permanent night shift attracts 130% of the base hourly rate (1.30x). For casuals, the casual loading does not simply add to these penalty rates: see the penalty table and coverage notes.

The Fair Work Commission reviews award minimum rates each year in the Annual Wage Review. The rates on this page took effect from 1 July 2026. The official source is the FWO Pay Calculator, which always reflects the current rates. Open the FWO Pay Calculator →