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While Hastings is not officially revealing where the axe will fall with its latest job-cutting initiative, the Daily Mercury reported that 100 were going from the Mackay groups with 鈥減eople expected to be laid off from Wednesday鈥�.
"We understand that Mackay and Rockhampton are going to take the bulk of the hit," Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union district vice-president Steve Pierce told the newspaper.
"Obviously it's going to have another impact on Mackay."
Mackay Resource Industry Group general manager Julie Boyd reportedly said the cuts were a worry for the future opportunities of the region but she wasn鈥檛 sure how many workers would go from the city.
"There have been rumours around about some of the things people have been doing to try and keep staff but it obviously gets to a point where ... they just need to cut staff to survive," she told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, a former Hastings Deering employee told the The Morning Bulletin that 65 jobs were expected to go from the Rockhampton operations but it wouldn鈥檛 be known until mid-August.
Hastings blamed challenging market conditions for the redundancies.
According to the ABC, Boyd said the smaller losses of staff from various companies over the last few months was almost like a death by 1000 cuts in the region.
"We're not having great big cut-offs like the car industry but this is significantly impacting on our skills base and our capacity to do business in the future."
Hastings cut 200 jobs across Queensland last year and employs an estimated 2500 people across the state.
The Mackay-based operations have coal producers Rio Tinto and BHP Mitsubishi Alliance as their biggest two clients.
