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Title VII Suit Against DC Transit Authority Settled

By Howard M. Friedman

The Justice Department announced yesterday that it has entered a settlement agreement with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in a Title VII religious discrimination case. The lawsuit was filed after WMATA refused a religious accommodation to permit Gloria Jones, who had preliminarily been hired as a bus driver, to wear a long skirt instead of pants. The settlement calls for WMATA to implement a religious accommodation policy and provide mandatory training on religious discrimination and accommodation for its supervisory employees. WMATA will also pay Jones $47,324 and will pay $2,500 each to two other individuals who were refused an accommodation to depart from the Authority's uniform policy. (See prior related posting.)

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).