‘They don’t care about our safety’: Quarantine workers move between hotels, offices

Workers and doctors in nine of Victoria’s quarantine hotels – including the Holiday Inn, from which a coronavirus outbreak leaked into the community – have been moving between multiple hotels and offices, in breach of the recommendations of an inquiry into the scheme’s failings.

Chief executive Jason Cartwright said in an all-staff online meeting that the “bludger factor” meant some workers lied about whether they were working, and said clients “are not going to want to see us on the sofa ... watching Netflix”. . The doctors, who utilise telehealth whenever possible, wear full personal protective equipment when they deal with returned travellers. No Healthcare Australia workers have been infected with COVID-19.

That system was investigated by a board of inquiry headed by Justice Jennifer Coate after the probe was commissioned by Premier Daniel Andrews. After the inquiry reported its findings in December,The board of inquiry’s scathing final report identified flaws with almost every aspect of the government’s management of the hotel quarantine program, and its oversight., both linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak that has grown to 19 people.

Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)

Stop writing crap.

It's called spreading the contagion.

SackDan

georgiecrozier Infection control breach - ripped glove used by cleaner 😬 .

Except they haven't though. Misleading headline.

ronInBendigo He really is teflon Dan, how are things like this consistently still happening (key word consistently) AND he still has a job.

another distraction for rape allegations that happened in parliament .

Yet in small business with multiple sites we have to ensure employees don’t work over multiple sites , increasing costs and pressure in already difficult circumstances....something we do to ensure the safety of our staff!

JacMac_2021 When's the investigation into NSW hotel Quarantine?

JacMac_2021 Meanwhile

Nothing to do with Andrews though, he’ll find someone to blame.

Hotel Quarantine is a big failure. Whoever in charge should be sacked! Consolidate all into 1 quarantine facility there you get to monitor, manage with strict/heavy guarded. Don’t toy with the economy & people livelihood with DanielAndrewsMP incompetence. Get it done asap!

WTF if doctors are doing this what hope have Victorians ever got, stand them down without pay and isolate them at home on no salary the same as some Victorians have had to do and see if the behaviours change pretty fast 😡

georgiecrozier Maybe we flip this around. Can you find anything they are doing well? ... because i can’t. 🤷🏻‍♂️

georgiecrozier Thanks to Dictator Dan's incompetence, we will have more lockdowns in the future DictatorDan

georgiecrozier

Well Paul How about we explore this with Mr cluster f$k tomorrow. Provide the facts and see how this story plans out. Even Dan can't be this dumb

ranjitrao1 Lockdown 3 months for our safety please. StaySafe StayOpen OhWait

danplague

It's obvious that the HQ inquiry was just an exercise for Dan to avoid a Royal Commission, he has learned nothing 🤦🏼‍♂️

Victorian government team meeting

You know no one takes you seriously any more, right?

The age have lost respect ... it’s no more than the daily mirror these days

Hey DanielAndrewsMP, how much did the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry cost in the end? Seems like a total waste if you're not following the most basic recommendations! Gold standard? Not a chance.

No surprises here. Govts dont learn

How much more do we need to take from this incompetent government?

With all due respect our investigation finds no evidence that this is the case. You can ask me the same question again and again all day but my answer will not change I don't accept that premise at all. I'm not going to stand here and accept statements that are factually not true

Learnt zero! Here we go again!

Chief executive Jason Cartwright said in an all-staff online meeting that the “bludger factor” meant some workers lied about whether they were working, and said clients “are not going to want to see us on the sofa ... watching Netflix”. A great culture and CEO (NOT) poor staff

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