The former employee said she was subjected to unsolicited touching and advances by staff members, including supervisors. Human rights complaint filed against Indigenous Services claims age and race discrimination."But, unfortunately, it is only the tip of the iceberg at this 'fortress.'"Ī third former employee said she heard white protective services officers call Black officers "slaves" and say they were lazy and slow. "It would be expected, especially at a Crown corporation, that the respect and integrity of their employees would be of the utmost importance and that there would be zero tolerance for this type of behaviour," the employee said. The employee said Black members were called the N-word and their features were mocked. Unsolicited harassment and touchingĪnother employee, who spoke to CBC News on the condition they not be named, described the workplace as a boys' club tolerant of sexual harassment, racial discrimination and bullying.
"I have never felt more alone in my life than that time," she said. Hainzelin said she was shunned by her colleagues after the meeting. She said she was later called into a meeting with human resources, a manager and a member of her union, and was urged to divulge the name of the person who made the insult. She said it was unintentionally forwarded to a manager, who - instead of apologizing - told her she should have raised the issue privately with him. The next day, Hainzelin said, she wrote an email to her colleagues asking them to stop. They said the atmosphere was so nasty, they feared reprisals if they filed grievances. WATCH: Former Mint employee says she faced racism on the job:ĭuration 2:00 Several former security guards at the Royal Canadian Mint have told CBC News they faced a toxic work environment that included racism and sexual harassment. "I had one officer point at me and he said, 'Chimpanzee? We work with one,'" Hainzelin said. The "tipping point" came, she said, during a workplace conversation about Jane Goodall's research with chimpanzees. "You don't rat on people," Hainzelin said. Hainzelin said that, as a new employee, she was very reluctant to push back. She said team leaders and supervisors participated in this harassment. She said some of her male colleagues jokingly told her not to steal anything from their homes, asked her whether she had attended school in a mud hut and whether she had gang tattoos, and wrote her notes on coconuts. Hainzelin said she was the only officer of colour when she started working at the Mint's security department in 2011. "I did that on my own because I don't want it to win."Īfter she quit the Royal Canadian Mint in 2019, Joelle Hainzelin said it took her more than a year to train herself to drive by her former workplace without suffering from a panic attack.
"I trained myself just to drive by and then diminish that physical reaction every single time," Hainzelin said. Hainzelin, who quit the Mint in July 2019, said more than a year passed before she could drive by her old workplace without suffering a panic attack. She said the stress, harassment and persecution caused her to lose more than 60 lbs during her eight years at the Crown corporation. Hainzelin filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission last year after she raised her concerns with the Mint's president, which triggered an external investigation. "I am not the same person I was a few years ago." Racist persecution and panic attacks "The damage is done," said Joelle Hainzelin, who worked as a Mint protective services officer from 2011 until 2019. A fifth filed a human rights complaint and is speaking publicly.
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