Two former NSW CFMEU officials have been jailed after pleading guilty to pocketing thousands of dollars in bribes from a construction industry figure.

Darren Greenfield, a former NSW secretary of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, and his son Michael, a former state branch assistant secretary, pleaded guilty this year to corruption-related offences after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.

In a decision on Friday, District Court Judge Leonie Flannery sentenced them to a minimum of 10 months and six months behind bars respectively.

The duo “used the influence of the union for their own personal benefit”, the judge said.

It marks the first time union officials have been sentenced for corruption offences introduced in the Fair Work Act in 2017 in response to r

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