BUILDER Jerry Hanssen has been fined $800 by the Western Australian Industrial Magistrates Court for a right-of-entry breach.
The court found that Mr Hanssen had blocked the right of Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union assistant secretary Joe McDonald to enter his East Perth building site last year.
The builder hired security guards after stoppages at the site.
Mr Hanssen said his latest tactic in dealing with the CFMEU’s attempts to get onto his worksites was to approach any of its officials with a video camera and ask them their reason for entering the site.
The union has currently put another enterprise order up against Mr Hanssen’s company, Hanssen Pty Ltd.
The enterprise order the CFMEU is seeking is identical to its enterprise bargaining agreement that allows for things such as a 36-hour week and the right to charge a $500 bargaining fee to any worker that is not a union member who benefits from the EBA.
Enterprise orders are part of the Western Australian Government’s workplace relations laws.
This is the second time the union has attempted to raise such an order on Hanssen.
The enterprise order process allows either a union or an employer to ask the WA Industrial Relations Commission to impose an agreement if one side is not bargaining “in good faith”.