The woman behind the counter was seen handing him back the page, saying she was pro-Palestine.
Officeworks has apologised after a pro-Palestine staff member refused to serve a customer at a store in south-east Melbourne.newspaper laminated at the Officeworks in Elsternwick.
"That's okay. You're here to do a job of laminating, not take political -," the man was heard saying.The woman was questioned about the company's policy, to which she said: "That's my position … I'm not comfortable proceeding with it.""We apologised to the customer at the time, and I take this opportunity to repeat our apology to him and extend it to the broader community for the hurt and upset the incident has caused," she said.
"We are clear that there is no place for discrimination, intolerance or racism in our team," she said.
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