Does eligibility for coal mining long service leave depend on the employer’s business or the employee’s work? Australia HC answers in 3:2 ruling
In the present case, a dispute arose as to whether Orica shotfirers working at black coal mines were “eligible employees” under the coal industry’s portable long service leave scheme. The dispute turned on the interpretation of the statutory definition of “eligible employee” and the operation of an exclusion relating to shotfiring services.