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26 Mar 2013

Author:
Matt Dunning, Business Insurance

Arkansas energy company settles EEOC religious bias charges [USA]

Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corp. has agreed to pay a former employee $95,000 to settle allegations that it fired her for attending a religious convention…[The company] allegedly refused to give Julia Solis permission to take a day off to attend a Jehovah’s Witness convention,…then fired her for taking the day off anyway to attend the convention. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] claim[ed] that the utility’s actions violated of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The utility also agreed to change its leave policy to include an appeals process for employees who are denied religious accommodations, provide discrimination prevention training to its administrative staff, and submit to a two-year federal monitoring program…