Hotel Settles EEOC Suit Charging Failure To Accommodate Seventh Day Adventist Employee

The EEOC announced Tuesday the settlement of a lawsuit it had filed against a Nags Head, North Carolina hotel charging that the Comfort Inn's new management refused to continue a religious accommodation for a Seventh Day Adventist employee so she would not have to work on her Sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday).  In the settlement, the hotel agreed to pay $45,000 in damages to the fired employee, and to implement policies and training to prevent religious discrimination in the future.