The National Post reports in its Tuesday edition that Lightspeed Commerce is under investigation for workplace harassment after employee Amanda Rafael filed complaints of targeted hostility and psychological harassment due to her Jewish background, which she claims contributed to her wrongful termination.
The Post's Adrian Humphreys writes that Ms. Rafael, 34, a sales worker, reported that after the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, several co-workers turned against her. She received antisemitic messages and was excluded from shared sales leads, while the company did not intervene after she alerted supervisors.
Ms. Rafael said in an interview: "You kind of feel like you're drowning. ... I was confused how these people can be my friends one day and then the next day hate me with a capital H, having not gotten into any verbal arguments or anything like that previously."
She said her disconnect from colleagues came right after the Hamas attacks.
Her complaint was investigated by Quebec's labour standards authority and forwarded to the province's administrative labour tribunal for a hearing, as part of Quebec's two-stage occupational complaints system.
Lightspeed is challenging her allegations at the tribunal.
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