Union official to front court on breaches

The ACT CFMEU state secretary will face court for allegedly breaching right of entry laws at three Canberra building sites.

A Canberra union official will face court for allegedly disrupting work and refusing to obey safety rules during several site visits.

Dean Hall, the ACT state secretary of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, allegedly threatened and ordered a concrete pump operator to stop work at a townhouse development in a 2013 incident.

On another occasion, Hall held his thumb over part of an entry permit when asked by site management to produce it, Fair Work Building and Construction says.

The body is also alleging a number of other CFMEU branch organisers broke right of entry laws on several occasions between August 2013 and March 2014.

One of them allegedly told a site supervisor, who had asked him to follow site rules: "You can't f***ing tell me what to do."

Hall is due to appear in the Federal Circuit Court in Canberra on February 2.


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