CORONAVIRUS — HOTEL QUARANTINE — STAFF
107. Hon
COLIN de GRUSSA to the minister representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to the issue of hotel
quarantine staff being banned from working second jobs.
(1) Which agency holds the contracts
with companies undertaking hotel quarantine work?
(2) Which agency is responsible for implementing the
signing of statutory declarations by hotel quarantine staff?
(3) At what stage in their employment at hotel
quarantine sites are staff required to sign the statutory declaration?
(4) What
monitoring and reporting processes are in place to ensure that hotel quarantine
staff are not working second jobs?
Hon Tjorn
Sibma interjected.
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
Hon Tjorn Sibma
can give the answer if he wants to!
The PRESIDENT:
That is ambition, minister.
Hon STEPHEN
DAWSON: Hon Tjorn Sibma is trying to take my job!
I thank the
honourable member for some notice of the question.
(1) The
Department of Health holds contracts in relation to security and transport
services.
(2) None.
(3) Staff are
required to sign a statutory declaration within seven days of commencing
employment and to make a declaration at each pay cycle thereafter.
(4) The Department of Health receives a statutory
declaration from each hotel with each invoice, declaring that a copy of
individual statutory declarations and updated declarations at each pay cycle
have been received.