Twenty staff have left Greens WA senator Dorinda Cox’s office in just three years, with several lodging formal complaints alleging a hostile culture.
Twenty staff have left Greens WA senator Dorinda Cox’s office in just three years, with several lodging formal complaints alleging a hostile culture where employees felt unsafe.
A draft of a second complaint was provided to this masthead by a staffer who sent many emails to the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service raising concerns about Cox. The staffer did not lodge the complaint and has since left the job.The draft complaint states that Cox “would admit to me that she found it difficult to maintain decorum and would apologise for her overreactions to situations, promising to do better next time.
The review recommended trauma support be provided through the employee assistance program and to “embed greater opportunity for self-care into work days”. “I was employed as the community organiser, she asked me to come and work for her and I had high hopes, but she is a bully,” Montgomery said. “As long as the parliament and the political parties continue to hold weak lines of consequence for members of parliament, staff will continue to be put in dangerous work environments,” Quinton said.
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