City of Leduc deputy fire chief resigns – Edmonton | 24CA News
A 12 months after harrowing allegations dealing with the City of Leduc have been first reported by Global News, one other worker is leaving.
The metropolis’s deputy hearth chief is stepping down, almost one 12 months after Leduc hearth Chief George Clancy resigned.
Deputy hearth chief Broderick Moore will go away his job on the finish of March, in accordance with an undated resignation letter obtained by Global News.
He is the newest worker to exit the City of Leduc since a class-action lawsuit was filed towards it.
“We’ve seen the departure of fire chief, two deputy chiefs — including Moore this week — and two firefighters,” Robert Martz, the Calgary-based lawyer representing the plaintiffs within the lawsuit, mentioned on Tuesday.
The lawsuit consists of allegations of sexual assault, harassment, discrimination and bullying. None has been confirmed in courtroom.
An exterior investigation concluded the Leduc hearth division has a “psychologically unsafe and harmful culture.”
While Moore is just not accused of sexual assault, harassment or bullying, he’s talked about within the report.
“Largely in the context of failing to properly address the issues brought forward by the women about the hostile work environment and the abuse they were suffering,” Martz mentioned.
Moore’s resignation letter doesn’t reference the allegations, neither is he named within the lawsuit.
The City of Leduc has filed an announcement of defence denying all allegations.
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In the meantime, strain is rising for Leduc metropolis council to take motion.
On Monday evening at a council assembly, a number of ladies learn emotional statements, together with Taryn Covey.
“I lost my sense of safety and security, but most of all i lost myself,” she mentioned to councillors.
In an affidavit filed in June 2022, covey alleges her supervisor at a City of Leduc recreation facility demanded a experience and assaulted her contained in the automotive.
The affidavit mentioned she reported the incident to the Leduc RCMP and to the town’s human assets, and was requested “what she was wearing, if she found her supervisor attractive and if she’d led him on.”
The doc alleges H.R. urged her to not file a criticism.
“At first I thought I was only a victim of my attacker, but I have come to realize I am also a victim of the continued systemic failings of the City of Leduc,” Covey mentioned as a part of her assertion Monday evening.
Global News reached out to Covey for an interview. She mentioned she didn’t have any additional feedback however was blissful to be quoted from the assembly.
Martz mentioned the newest departure — of the deputy hearth chief — might not affect the authorized case, “but it shows a recognition that there were individuals in the fire department that had to go to make meaningful change in our view.”
The City of Leduc didn’t say if the deputy chief’s resignation was linked to the lawsuit.
A courtroom listening to in May will decide if the case ought to go ahead as a class-action or common lawsuit.
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