A driver at a post office warehouse in Australia died last night on shift. (photo by Daily Mail)
According to the Daily Mail, (Australia Post) employees at the Australian post office said one of their colleagues died of a heart attack last night while they were forced to continue working for hours. But the Australian post office strongly denies this claim.
It is understood that on the night of the incident, staff at a warehouse in Nambo (Nambour), (Queensland), Queensland, found the 49-year-old male driver missing. By 4 a.m., they found that the driver might have suffered a heart attack and had fallen to the ground. The workers called the police and waited for the body to be disposed of.
When police arrived, they placed a hat around the dead and covered the body with a blanket, an employee said. Managers tell them to keep working.
Late-night workers said he was "disgusted" by the interest-first approach of the Australian post office.
But the Australian post office refutes the idea of forcing employees to continue to work despite the death of their co-workers. A spokesman for the agency confirmed that the warehouse was still in operation, but said it had not forced any of its employees to continue working after the tragedy yesterday morning. At that time, the appropriate treatment was immediately carried out, and the police quickly intervened.
It is understood that after the incident, the communication union (Communications Union) has provided assistance to the shift workers that night. Bade (Cameron Bird), secretary of the group`s Kunzhou state, said it was understood that the body of the deceased remained at the scene for a few hours, while the warehouse was still in operation. The group believes that after such incidents, it may be more appropriate to stop operations on the same day. The organization is currently working with the Australian Post Office to ensure that similar situations are properly handled and that employees are not traumatized as a result.
