Bell Bay smelter cuts up to 10 jobs a month after $200m rescue package
Up to 10 roles at Bell Bay Aluminium are being cut. This comes weeks after it got $200 million in government funding.
Workers at Australia's oldest aluminium smelter have been offered redundancies as part of a routine operational review. Only up to 10 roles are affected.
The smelter will keep its main workforce of about 550 full-time equivalent employees. The redundancies come less than a month after the federal and state governments announced a $200 million rescue plan.
This funding is meant to keep the plant open until at least 2031. Rio Tinto runs the smelter near George Town in Tasmania.
Some other job options are available.
- Up to 10
- Jobs cut
- $200 million
- Government funding
- 550 FTE
- Core workforce
- George Town, Tasmania
- Location
Why it mattersA smelter collapse would hurt Tasmania's factories and cost hundreds of jobs. Keeping the plant open has been very important to the government.
AustraliaFor Tasmania's economy and workers in the George Town region, the smelter's survival remains on track despite the modest redundancies.
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