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Article

23 Apr 2004

Author:
Rona Marech, San Francisco Chronicle

Cirque settles with fired gymnast

Cirque du Soleil has agreed to pay $600,000 to Matthew Cusick, a gymnast who was fired from the Montreal-based circus company last year because he is HIV-positive. The agreement...includes requirements that Cirque...give all employees annual anti-discrimination training, which will be monitored by the EEOC [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission].