Casual workers at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) claim they have not been paid for their work during the referendum and were treated poorly by full-time AEC staff. The impacted casual staff include pensioners, people with English as a second language, and individuals with mild disabilities. The workers also allege large-scale wage theft and the denial of entitled breaks.
A caller who worked for the AEC in the weeks leading up to the referendum told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Monday that the impacted casual staff included “pensioners, people with English as a second language and kids with mild disabilities”.The caller, who refused to be identified for fear of retribution, alleged that full-time AEC staffers treated the casual work force like “pieces of furniture”.
Two other callers who claimed to have worked on polling booths on referendum day also told Mr Fordham that they had not been paid for their work during the referendum. Following the Voice to Parliament defeat on October 14, the AEC has also been the target of attacks over their handling of remote polling locations, including from shadow Indigenous affairs minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
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