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Board permits complainant's adviser to attend view of premises and refuses to exclude press.
The complainants alleged contraventions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Labour Relations Act.
During preliminary matters, the Board ruled on two issues.
First, the Board ordered that the complainant's adviser be permitted to attend a view of the respondent's premises, finding it necessary for a fair hearing and noting no prejudice to the respondent.
Second, the Board dismissed the respondent's request to exclude the press from the hearing room, holding that hearings are presumptively open to the public and the respondent had not met the onus under section 9(1)(b) of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act to justify an in camera hearing.
