Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, who was paid $2.5 million last year as the nation's highest earning civil servant, is estimated to be in line for a $1 million-plus bonus. Meanwhile, workers are being asked to use their own cars.
Australia Post has asked workers to volunteer to help clear a massive backlog in parcels caused by the coronavirus pandemic, using their own cars at the same time its senior executives are in line for about $7 million in bonus payments.
The potential backdown on executive pay has enraged many within the Morrison government, which has already put a freeze on any pay increases of MPs, judges and senior public servants against a backdrop of rising unemployment across the country.Federal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said Ms Holgate had committed that the executive team would forego their right to bonuses for the 2019-20 financial year "in light of the impact of COVID-19".
Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate was paid $2.5 million last year as the nation's highest earning civil servant.In the memo to staff on Monday, deliveries general manager Rod Barnes said AusPost needed people with a driver's licence and car to help with parcel pick-up services from facilities in Dandenong South, Bayswater and Brooklyn and deliver to customers for shifts this week.
An Australia Post spokesman said it was doing "all we can" to help process and deliver the items at the same time as its workforce capacity was reduced because of restrictions. Staff will be reimbursed for the use of their cars and those who volunteer on the weekend will receive time off in lieu. Victoria's lockdown restrictions has forced a 10 per cent daily workforce reduction, rising to 33 per cent during peak times, coupled with split shifts to ensuring cleaning of distribution centres in metropolitan Melbourne.
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