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$22,000 fine for Xstrata's agreement-breaching retrenchments

A court has taken into account in fining an Xstrata subsidiary $22,000 that workers it retrenched in breach of their enterprise agreement had no other recourse, because of Work Choices' 100-employee threshold for unfair dismissal claims.

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