Hotel quarantine security done on the cheap via subcontractors

A security guard working at Melbourne’s quarantine hotels has said he received no training, that guards were paid as little as $18 per hour in cash, had no alcohol-based hand sanitiser on one job, and were forced to sign confidentiality agreements to prevent them discussing what they saw. The man, whom The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have agreed not to name, worked for a subcontractor called Sterling Security Group, which was engaged by one of the government’s main contractors, Sydney firm Unified Security. Unified was one of the three security firms awarded contracts at short notice by the Victorian government to guard returned international travellers in quarantine inside hotels….