EEOC Sues Over Employer's Failure To Accommodate Haj Trip

The EEOC has filed a lawsuit in a Tennessee federal court against Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville alleging that it refused to accommodate a Muslim employee's request to use earned vacation time to make his Pilgrimage to Mecca. CCH reports that the suit filed last month claims the hospital would not grant extended leave to employee Wali Telwar. Instead it forced him to resign and unsuccessfully reapply after returning from the Haj.