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With a passion for the environment and a diploma in environmental engineering technology, a Regina woman thought she’d found her dream job when hired by the city to work at the landfill as a technologist.

Instead, she said it quickly proved a nightmare.

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The woman — who is not being named as she continues to fear for her safety — received her diploma in 2013 and was hired in September that year.

“This was actually a dream job that I had written down in my journals through school …,” she said during an often-emotional interview Tuesday. “There was a lot of potential at the landfill to do very interesting work such as remediation with trees. This was a perfect job for me.”

But she said the ideal situation soon proved the opposite. Her experience and that of two female colleagues was the subject of a recent decision by the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (SLRB), which determined the women were badly let down by both their union and the city when they endured what the decision referred to as “extremely serious” sexual and gender-based harassment at the hands of male colleagues.