00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 311(L&C)                                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the hours a person may be employed in a mine."                                                      
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 23.10.410(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (a)  Except as provided in (d) of this section, a [A] person may not be                                             
05 employed in an underground coal mine, underground lode mine, underground placer                                         
06 mine, underground coal, lode, or placer workings, or other underground mine, or                                         
07 workings for more than eight hours in 24 hours, except on a day when a change of shift                                  
08 is made, excluding, however, an intermission of time for meals, or otherwise going to                                   
09 or from the place where the work is actually carried on, whether in going on or off shift,                              
10 or in going to or returning from meals.                                                                                 
11    * Sec. 2.   AS 23.10.410 is amended by adding new subsections to read:                                               
12  (d)  On application from an employer, the commissioner may grant a variance                                           
13 that permits employment in an underground mine or workings for more than eight but                                      
14 not more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period if the commissioner finds that                                               

01   (1)  the additional working time is permitted under the terms of a                                                   
02 collective bargaining agreement entered into by a bargaining organization that                                          
03 represents workers performing the work covered by the variance; or                                                      
04   (2)  the extension is in the best interest of resident workers of the state.                                         
05  (e)  The department shall issue orders and adopt regulations necessary to carry                                       
06 out this section.