CANADIAN COMP. FINED 4 ANTI-MUSLIM COMMENTS
Freshslice CEO ordered to pay $85K for anti-Muslim, anti-Iranian comments.
"The BC Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) has ordered the CEO of a major Canadian pizza chain to pay a former employee $85,000 plus interest for creating a "toxic work environment" through "derogatory comments about Muslim and Iranian people."
Tribunal evidence against Ray Russell, CEO of Vancouver-founded Freshslice Pizza, included an audio recording of Russell using a profanity while telling an employee they have “third … world mentalities” that “have no place in Canada.”
The tribunal’s decision, issued Aug. 12 and released publicly this week, included an award against both Russell personally and against Freshslice Holdings Ltd.
The payment includes $45,000 in lost wages to complainant Behrooz Rabiei. He resigned as a marketing manager in January 2021, after Russell reassigned much of Rabiei's work to others, leaving Rabiei with what the tribunal said was little meaningful work."
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