A taxpayer-funded staffer in former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek’s parliamentary office at times spent 80 per cent of her week on factional activities despite politicians’ use of electoral staff for such tasks risking breaking rules about misusing public officers.

Testifying before Victoria’s corruption watchdog on Tuesday, parliamentary staffer Elle Schreiber also said that Mr Somyurek offered her a job with CFMEU boss John Setka because the unionist was getting “bad media” and having a woman in a senior role would help manage the fallout.