Resolution Copper Company is urging Arizona lawmakers to allow miners who work underground to be scheduled for shifts up to 12 hours. Current state law limits underground miners to eight hour shifts.
A representative of Resolution Copper told the House Employment and Regulatory Affairs Committee that operations in other states that increased the limits to 12 hours have seen decreases in time lost to injuries. Adam Hawkins also said that workers have found that they prefer this because it means less time commuting and more time at home.
The bill would also remove language from state law declaring that employment in underground mining is “injurious to health and dangerous to life and limb.”
Cronkite News Service reports that the bill has already been approved by the Arizona Senate. It now goes to the House floor.
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