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Management - Labor Relations | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2021
Risks and Uncertainties [Abstract] |
Management - Labor Relations | Management — Labor Relations On December 31, 2021, the Company had approximately 4,900 employees worldwide, including approximately 3,900 hourly employees; the employee amounts exclude employees that were employed at operations classified as discontinued operations. Approximately 34% of those hourly employees were represented by organized labor unions and were employed by mines that generated 16% of the Company’s 2021 coal production from continuing operations. In the U.S., one mine is represented by an organized labor union. In Australia, the coal mining industry is unionized and the majority of hourly workers employed at the Company’s Australian mining operations are members of trade unions. The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) generally represents the Company’s Australian subsidiaries’ hourly production and engineering employees, including those employed through contract mining relationships. The following table presents the Company’s active and inactive mining operations as of December 31, 2021 in which the employees are represented by organized labor unions:
Mine |  | Approximate Number of Active Employees Represented |  | Union |  | Current Agreement Expiration Date or Date Amendable
U.S. |  |  |  |  |  |
Kayenta |  | 15 |  | UMWA |  | November 2024
Shoal Creek |  | 280 |  | UMWA |  | December 2024
Australia |  |  |  |  |  |
Wilpinjong |  | 480 |  | CFMMEU |  | June 2024
Coppabella (1) |  | 280 |  | CFMMEU |  | June 2021
Moorvale (2) |  | 150 |  | N/A |  | June 2023
Metropolitan |  |  |  |  |  |
Underground employees |  | 145 |  | CFMMEU |  | May 2025
Handling and preparation plant employees (1) |  | 20 |  | CFMMEU |  | May 2021
Wambo Underground |  |  |  |  |  |
Underground employees |  | 75 |  | CFMMEU |  | November 2025
Handling and preparation plant employees (1) |  | 20 |  | CFMMEU |  | December 2021
(1) The Company and the CFMMEU are currently negotiating a new labor agreement. (2) Employees of the Moorvale Mine operate on individual contracts under a direct engagement model. Such contracts are modeled after the Company’s former labor agreement with CFMMEU which ended in 2017. According to a memorandum of understanding between the Company and employees, individual contracts may be renegotiated in June 2023. Note: Employees of the North Goonyella Mine operated under a labor agreement which expired in December 2018. Due to the idling of the mine, as further described in Note 19. “Other Events,” hourly employees were terminated and there are no employees employed under the agreement. Peabody applied to the Fair Work Commission in December 2021 to terminate the labor agreement.

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