Volunteers drop out of Melbourne's Games
09/01/2006 05:46:10 AM
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More than 1,200 Commonwealth Games volunteers have quit in the past 10 weeks citing unreasonably long hours.
The disgruntled volunteers claim they were expected to work 60-hour weeks for very little reward.
But the Games' chief executive, John Harnden, said he was confident the event would start in Melbourne on March 15 with a full complement of volunteers, Fairfax newspapers have reported.
Mr Harden said the dropout rate, from 15,000 volunteers, was better than that of the Sydney Olympics' 30 per cent rate.
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