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While unions are confident of being able to retain unfair dismissal protection at organised sites via bargaining, one of the ironies to emerge from the Coalition's planned radical expansion of its unfair dismissal exemption is that many genuinely small businesses - which were behind the exemption move in the first place - will still be caught by state laws because they are unincorporated.
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