{"id":183661,"date":"2025-03-07T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=183661"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:50:27","slug":"new-ghost-shift-scam-claims-at-metro-tunnel-spark-major-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=183661","title":{"rendered":"New ghost shift scam claims at Metro Tunnel spark major probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A major investigation has been launched into allegations that Melbourne\u2019s Metro Tunnel workers have been signing off on false timesheets for work not completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=12437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">This is the second occasion the issue has been detected and the practice seems to be continuing<\/a> with the Herald Sun Newspaper revealing this last year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlYWmEcbgAAY_Tc-948x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlYWmEcbgAAY_Tc-948x1024.jpeg 948w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlYWmEcbgAAY_Tc-278x300.jpeg 278w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlYWmEcbgAAY_Tc-768x830.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlYWmEcbgAAY_Tc.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p id=\"U832924072845vdG\">Evidence of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/multiple-investigations-launched-into-alleged-scams-on-major-projects\/news-story\/ad36fd10f1d6eedef2b904c7d2b0f847#:~:text=There%20are%20investigations%20under%20way,ghost%E2%80%9D%20shifts%20and%20unpaid%20allowances.\">Big Build fraud<\/a>&nbsp;was \u00aduncovered during an \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adin\u00advestigation into \u201cghost shifts\u201d and other alleged multimillion-dollar rorts on Victorian building sites revealed by the Herald Sun last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Build was rocked by the allegations, detailed by whistleblowers, which included construction firms being billed for shifts that workers did not fill or never completed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Build was rocked by the allegations, detailed by whistleblowers, which included construction firms being billed for shifts that workers did not fill or never completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":18012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,47],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-183661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183750,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183661\/revisions\/183750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}