September 28, 2007
Source: CNN
Wire Service: AP
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/D8RUHDT80.htm
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Prison officials violated workplace discrimination laws when they fired a Muslim nurse who insisted on wearing a head scarf on the job, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged Thursday.
The agency charged in a lawsuit that The Geo Group Inc., a private company that operates the Delaware County Prison in Thornton, refused to make religious accommodations for Carmen Sharpe-Allen and other female Muslim employees.