4.1 This industry award covers employers throughout Australia in the aluminium industry and their employees in the classifications listed in Schedule B to the exclusion of any other modern award.
4.2 For the purposes of this clause, aluminium industry means bauxite operations and the treatment of bauxite, alumina, aluminium or any of their derivatives, including:
(a) resource drilling, extraction, rehabilitation work and treatment of bauxite;
(b) all processing, refining, smelting, melting, casting and rolling operations performed in connection with the treatment of bauxite, alumina, aluminium and any of their derivatives;
(c) activities ancillary to clauses 4.2(a) and (b) including, but not limited to:
(i) the generation and/or transmission of power and/or steam that is ancillary or incidental to the employer’s activities in clauses 4.2(a) or (b) (albeit that excess power may sold into the grid); and
(ii) bulk materials handling at a wharf or any load out/in facility, including the loading and unloading of bauxite, alumina and other bulk materials for the purpose of such activities by employers engaged in such activities;
(d) the servicing, maintaining (including mechanical, electrical, fabricating or engineering) or repairing of plant and equipment used in activities set out in clauses 4.2(a), (b) and (c) by employees principally employed to perform work on an ongoing basis at a location where such activities are being performed; and
(e) the provision of supplementary labour services used in activities set out in clauses 4.2(a), (b) and (c) by supplementary labour personnel principally engaged to perform work at a location where such activities are being performed.
NOTE: The placement of a contractor of employees at an aluminium industry facility for the period of a programmed maintenance shutdown would not bring the contractor within the aluminium industry under clause 4.2(d).
4.7 This award covers employers which provide group training services for apprentices and trainees engaged in the industry and/or parts of industry set out in clause 4.1 and those apprentices and trainees engaged by a group training service hosted by a company to perform work at a location where the activities described herein are being performed. This subclause operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.
4.8 Where an employer is covered by more than one award, an employee of that employer is covered by the award classification which is most appropriate to the work performed by the employee and the environment in which the employee normally performs the work.
NOTE: Where there is no classification for a particular employee in this award it is possible that the employer and that employee are covered by an award with occupational coverage.