About 450 Centrelink call centre staff have been stood down and sent into isolation without pay due to a growing outbreak that a union claims was triggered by a private operator ignoring social distancing in the workplace.
Serco Asia Pacific, owned by $2 billion British public service provider Serco Citizen Services, stood down the workforce at the Mill Park call centre in Melbourne's north east this week after the Health Department deemed hundreds of staff were close contacts and at risk of infection.
Centrelink staff stood down, say social distancing pleas were ignored
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