B Central was the head contractor on a student apartment site at Queens Avenue, Hawthorn.
On 6 October 2008, B Central dismissed the site ‘peggy’, who was also the OHS representative, due to poor work performance.
On 7 October 2008, CFMEU official Danny Berardi attended the site and instructed the employees to stop work until the issue could be sorted out. The employees stopped work and left the site.