Jewish employee alleges she confronted ‘Heil Hitler’ chants at Kamloops McDonald’s – Kamloops Information

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The BC Human Rights Tribunal will hear a lawsuit from a Jewish woman who says she was subjected to Nazi abuse, groped by another worker and labeled a “geriatric slut” while working at a Kamloops McDonald’s.

WorkSafeBC had already dismissed the woman’s dismissal suit, a decision that mentioned some of the Nazi problems.

Jennifer Warner made several allegations against the company, including:

• two male employees subjected them to Nazi greetings and walking while they chanted “Heil Hitler”;
• with sympathy for the Nazis of World War II received “unsolicited history lessons”;
• a worker told her that a few slices of cheese resembled the “Star of David”;
• sexual harassment in 2016 until termination in 2018;
• persistent unwanted sexualized actions, comments and groping by a male worker;
• Descent, religion and age offend with some assaults, and;
• to be called a “prudish, suckling and geriatric bitch”.

“MS. Warner alleges that her various complaints to senior management went unanswered or were not properly handled and that she was ultimately fired after complaining,” Tribunal member Steven Adamson said on Aug. 4 when he turned the complaint into one Brought hearing.

Dawnal Quick Serve Ltd. operated restaurant argued that the complaint should be dismissed due to a lack of detail and ambiguity.

In a statement, McDonald’s Canada Franchisee Alan Gozda said: “Respect for the safety and well-being of my employees is at the heart of everything I do and I take all alleged situations very seriously. My restaurant group, Dawnal Quick Serve Ltd, is aware of the complaint before the BC Human Rights Tribunal. We will not tolerate the conduct alleged in the complaint. “

Warner’s complaint to the Tribunal was her second to a government agency with the allegations. She first filed a complaint for wrongly dismissing her.

In March 2019, Warner filed a lawsuit with WorkSafeBC over prohibited actions. She was denied this in February 2020 and the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal upheld this decision on April 9, 2021.

The appeals court found that the company’s dismissal of Warner was not in retaliation for her complaints about the Nazis’ insults and sexual comments.

This decision states: “The worker described incidents that occurred in 2016 when she was called“ a Nazi ”and was greeted with a Hitler salute at the construction site. The worker reported to the board that her previous emails to headquarters told her superiors that she was “a Nazi in cleaning matters.”

However, the company said she had been fired for reaching headquarters with complaints about administration and food safety.

A personnel officer of the company reported that the employee was fired without giving a reason, that she had bypassed local superiors and forwarded complaints to the head office. The company told WorkSafeBC that it was investigating the harassment complaints.

“The employer argued that many of the health and safety concerns the employee had recently raised were similarly unfounded and were the direct result of the employee’s own poor performance, appeals court member Shelina Shivj said in a decision made Jan.

An investigation by WorkSafeBC found that the employment relationship between employees and employers was constantly broken.

“I conclude that the worker’s layoff was more the result of the employer’s increasing frustration with the worker’s reactions to events in the workplace and her ongoing reports that undermine the employer’s performance to headquarters,” Shivj said.