A high-level human resources employee at the City of Markham has been placed on leave after she said and displayed the N-word while giving a guest lecture to students at George Brown College.
Janet Ashfield, Markham’s deputy director of people services, spoke to more than 100 students in the college’s human resources management program on Wednesday, according to a video recording of the virtual class viewed by CBC Toronto.
As part of her presentation, Ashfield presented a real-world case study about two firefighters who lost their jobs after posting offensive content on social media. She asked the students how they would have handled the situation if they
