Sydney, May 6 (ANI): A German origin CityRail worker was denounced as a "f---ing Hitler", and was ridiculed as a "German dog" in front of passengers at a busy city station in Australia.
It is the third time in two months that workplace incidents at CityRail have involved Nazi or anti-Semitic slurs, instigating the Australian government to check the behavior and culture of the officials at RailCorp.
Previously, a train guard who gave a "heil Hitler" salute and traced the letters "SS" on the back of a CityRail colleague before sexually harassing him had been sacked for workplace misconduct and sexual harassment.
In another instance, a station manager at Central was sacked, for telling a Jewish couple, Cheryl and Jeffrey Bogan, of Bondi, they could afford to take a taxi because "all Jews living in the eastern suburbs are wealthy". He was however reinstated on appeal after serving a six-month suspension.
Minister for Transport, Gladys Berejiklian, expressed her concerns with RailCorp, and described the latest incident as "completely unacceptable".
"After 16 years of Labor, RailCorp has become paralysed by dysfunction, layers of middle management and inefficiency," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Berejiklian, as saying.
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has called for the culture at RailCorp to be cleaned up.
"All racist assaults are of concern, as are all untoward incidents of a Nazi-related nature. When a third episode occurs in the same organisation within two months, one has to ask serious questions," the board's Chief Executive, Vic Alhadeff, was reported, as saying. (ANI)
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