The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that Rastafarian baggage screener Josue Brissot was discriminated against when the Transportation Security Ageny (TSA) threatened to fire him in 2005 if he didn’t cut his dreadlocks. Bissot wears his hair long for religious reasons. He claims that he was assured his dreadlocks weren’t a problem when he was hired by the Transporation Security Administration in 2002.
Brissot was represented in the case by the Boston office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU says Brissot’s treatment violated federal law prohibiting employment discrimination based on religion. An interim ruling was issued by the administrative law judge in the case and is now scheduled for a hearing to determine compensation in February.
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