K. Brooks (JFK Law LLP) Letter WJ Flight Attendants (CUPE) - Online info session (March 7, 2024)
Dear Members,
Please see the below message from JFK Law LLP.
Dear WestJet Flight Attendants,
We are the lawyers for Mandalena Lewis, the representative plaintiff in a certified Class Action filed against WestJet Airlines. Ms. Lewis worked at WestJet from 2008 to 2016 based in Vancouver, B.C. The Class Action trial is scheduled to begin on October 15, 2024.
Ms. Lewis’s Class Action claims that WestJet has systemically breached its contracts with female flight attendants employed between April 4, 2014 and February 28, 2021 by failing to create and maintain a harassment free workplace. The Class claims that WestJet promised, and failed to:
Proactively prevent harassment in the workplace;
Ensure compliance by WestJet employees with a Code of Conduct that prohibits harassment; and,
Properly investigate and respond to complaints of harassment.
Harassment can be broadly understood as any behaviour that is offensive, embarrassing, or humiliating and instances can include: physical or sexual assault, unnecessary or unwelcome physical contact, and any other actions that may be reasonably perceived as offensive or disrespectful.
We want to hear from you
While our litigation is mainly focused on what WestJet did – and did not do – we also want to hear from Class Members, that is female flight attendants – both current and former – that were employed between 2014 and 2021, about your experiences at WestJet. Specifically, we are looking for information about:
WestJet culture and its impact on harassment in the workplace
Programming offered by WestJet to address harassment in the workplace
The impact/non-impact of the Code of Conduct
Formal training about harassment / anti-harassment offered by WestJet
Incidents of harassment and WestJet’s responses
Differential treatment by WestJet of employees based on position, gender, age, etc.
We are hosting an online information session on March 7, 2024 at 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).
Please RSVP to Maria Baracaldo for a link to the information session:
By telephone at 1-778-819-3931 or 604 687 0549 extension 117
Or by email at WJAntiHarassmentClass@jfklaw.ca
More information about the Anti-Harassment Class Action, including copies of the notice of civil claim, can be found on our website here: https://jfklaw.ca/mandalena-lewis-against-westjet-airlines-ltd-westjet/
Thank you,
Karey Brooks, K.C., Senior Counsel
JFK Law LLP