The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that a B.C. court has approved a $4.5-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over workplace harassment of flight attendants at WestJet. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says the settlement was approved after a judge ruled it fair and in the best interest of the eligible employees, JFK Law states on its website. The lawsuit alleged that WestJet failed to live up to its contractual "promise" to provide a harassment-free workplace. Former flight attendant Mandalena Lewis, who spearheaded the suit, said she is experiencing "a whole wave of emotions" at the moment. "I still feel anger," she told Canadian Press. The dollar amount of the settlement works out to less than $500 per recipient. The agreement requires WestJet to retain a third party to conduct an assessment that looks at the prevalence of harassment in the workplace. In her lawsuit, Ms. Lewis alleges that a pilot pinned her down in a hotel room and tried to force her to have sex during a layover in Hawaii in January, 2010. She later learned that WestJet had investigated a complaint from a flight attendant two years earlier alleging the same pilot had sexually assaulted her during a layover in Alberta.
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