Multiple staff complaints against Labour’s Halbert

Newshub reports:

Labour leader Chris Hipkins is standing by one of his MPs, despite a number of former employees coming forward to Newshub calling Shanan Halbert a bully.

The Labour Party was alerted to concerns about his alleged behaviour a year ago but because staffers wanted to remain anonymous, no formal process was undertaken …

They told Newshub that Halbert was “manipulative”, “scheming”, “a narcissist” and that they live in fear of him.  …

Newshub has obtained email chains, which directly raise concerns with Labour’s former chief Whip Duncan Webb.  

The first alert came from a bullying and harassment consultant acting on behalf of some of Halbert’s former staffers.

They emailed Webb on August 22 last year and listed Halbert’s behaviour in black and white.

The email said that Halbert had made staff members “cry in front of others”, “publicly humiliated them”, “played staff off against each other”, and “shouted” at staff.  

But Labour, the “workers’ party”, did nothing.