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FWA examines "reasonable" employer behaviour in right of entry case

The AMIEU has lost its appeal against an earlier finding that it was reasonable for a company to require it to meet workers in a training room next to the HR manager's office. But a Fair Work Australia full bench has warned against accepting employers' hearsay evidence on employees' attitude to union visits; held that an employer's "mere concern" that a union wouldn't talk only to interested workers wasn't enough to refuse it use of the lunch-room; and said that notifying abattoir employees of a visit via a legalistic bulletin was inappropriate.