Jeremy Vermeesch, who was a member of the Workplace Express editorial team for about three years until mid-2008, died suddenly on the weekend.
Jeremy was born in 1962 and educated in Sydney.
He got his start in journalism as a copy boy at News Ltd and began reporting intensively on IR when he worked for Australian Associated Press in Sydney in the mid-1990s.
Jeremy began working as the ACTU's media officer in Melbourne at the turn of the century. He later worked for the AWU and Workplace Express.
Jeremy had great integrity, passion, warmth, intellect and good humour. He also had a great ability to distil complicated facts into stories that were a delight to read.
All of us at Workplace Express will miss Jeremy terribly.
He is survived by his former wife, Genevieve Costigan, his two children, Olivia and Max, his parents Robert and Margaret and siblings Paul, David, Anne and Lilly (Elizabeth).
Jeremy's funeral will be held at St Carthage's Church in Parkville, Melbourne, on Friday afternoon.
A death notice appeared today in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Tribute pages for Jeremy have been set up here and on Facebook (see it here).