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In response to media enquiries on Monday, a company spokesman confirmed that the 70 contractors employed by WorkPac would finish up on June 29.
About two weeks ago Wesfarmers made various roster changes, including the introduction of a new five-day eight-hour roster, to help save jobs at the mine.
“Since the downturn in the coal market some 18 months ago Curragh has made it a priority to protect the jobs of its full-time permanent wages workforce and this most recent change is consistent with that approach,” Wesfarmers said at the time.
The Curragh mine has the capacity to produce 8.5 million tonnes per annum of saleable met coal (hard coking, semi coking and PCI grades) and 3Mtpa of domestic thermal coal.
The roster cutbacks followed continued weakness in metallurgical coal prices while the WorkPac retrenchments came not long after the September quarter premium hard coking coal benchmark was struck at $US93 a tonne – the lowest contract price for more than 10 years.
