Federal Court Enters $130,000 Consent Decree Ending Religious Bias Suit Against Mesaba Airlines
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Monday, December 28, 2009
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Judge Donovan W. Frank of the federal district court
in Minneapolis late yesterday entered a consent decree resolving a
religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Mesaba Airlines. The decree
provides for the distribution of $130,000 to five discrimination
victims as well as injunctive relief.
In its lawsuit, filed on September 30, 2008, the EEOC alleged that
Mesaba Airlines, a regional airline and wholly owned subsidiary of
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 when it terminated a Jewish customer service agent (CSA)
because she refused to work on the Jewish Sabbath (EEOC v. Mesaba Airlines,
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