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Mother lode: Mining company worker's highly-offensive insult in Mandarin justifies dismissal
The FWC has taken into account the extreme offensiveness in Chinese culture of an insult conveyed in Mandarin by one Chinese-speaking employee to another, in ruling a mining company was justified in sacking the perpetrator.
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