The EEOC announced last week that it had filed suit in a North Carolina federal district court against a Goldsboro, North Carolina construction company that refused to accommodate the religious needs of Seventh Day Adventist employees. The lawsuit against T.S. Loving Co. alleges that eventually the day laborers were fired because of their refusal to work on their Sabbath which runs from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
Yesterday, in another case, the EEOC announced that UPS Freight, one of the country's largest trucking companies, will pay $46,000 to a Rastafarian who was fired shortly after he was hired because he refused for religious reasons to cut his hair or shave his beard. In the settlement of the EEOC lawsuit that had been filed in a Pennsylvania federal district court, the company also agreed to an injunction prohibiting it from engaging in religious discrimination or retaliation, to anti-discrimination training and to post a notice of the settlement. (See prior related posting.)
