WorkSafe charges Victorian government over
alleged hotel quarantine breaches
Dan on trial for 801 deaths.
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The Victorian government has been charged over a litany of alleged hotel quarantine breaches in a bombshell development.
@AnthonyPiovesan
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September 29, 2021 - 1:44PM
Victoria’s workplace safety watchdog has taken the extraordinary step of charging the state government with 58 breaches over its hotel quarantine fiasco last year.
The Department of Health faces fines of up to $1.64 million.
In a bombshell development on Wednesday afternoon, WorkSafe Victoria charged the department with 17 counts of failing to provide a workplace that was free of health risks to employees.
It was also charged with a further 41 breaches.
The charges related to the state government’s hotel quarantine program, set up between March and July 2020.
Victoria’s workplace safety watchdog has charged the state government with 17 alleged breaches over last year’s botched hotel quarantine program. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie
The maximum penalty for a body corporate for each of the charges was $1.64 million.
Coronavirus outbreaks at Melbourne’s Rydges on Swanston and Stamford Plaza Hotel, where returned travellers were being quarantined,
led to 99 per cent of Victoria’s second wave of Covid-19 cases and 801 deaths.