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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Iron-ore miner Fortescue Metals has confirmed redundancies at its Cloudbreak operation, in Western Australia, after reports emerged that the company had sacked a number of truck drivers.
In April this year, the iron-ore major announced an organisational review, which resulted in a change in work rosters across the company’s operations, to bring those in line with standard rosters worked in the Pilbara.
The operational rosters moved from a predominantly eight-day-on, six-days-off-cycle, to a two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off cycle.
A spokesperson for Fortescue told Mining Weekly Online that the company was working through changes to its organisational structure across its sites as it brought rosters in line with industry standards.
“The roster change decision has been a very difficult one for all of us but unfortunately was beyond our control. We have communicated with our workforce consistently since the decision was announced two weeks ago,” the spokesperson said.
The number of redundancies could not be confirmed at this point, as Fortescue was working to redeploy as many affected workers as possible, to other sites.