Glencore’s Hail Creek restructuring hits 400 jobs

Diversified miner Glencore has announced plans to ‘reconfigure’ its Hail Creek coal mine, in Queensland, resulting in nearly 400 job losses. The miner announced that the two-dragline operation would be reconfigured into a truck-and-shovel mine, with a seven-day on, seven-day off roster. The restructure would decrease the workforce from the current 1 360 to 930 by the time the changes are fully implemented in the second half of 2019.