A Roanoke, Va.-based moving company will pay $30,000 as part of a settlement with a Waynesboro-area man who says he was denied a job because he wouldn?t cut his long, dreadlocked hair.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit last year against Lawrence Transportation Systems on behalf of Christopher Woodson, who grows his hair as a Rastafarian religious expression. Woodson claimed the company denied him a job as a loader at its Waynesboro facility in May 2008.
Under a settlement, the company also agreed to implement anti-discrimination policies and training and post notices at its work sites on planned compliance.
Lawrence Transportation President Ron Spangler said that the case is an example of heavy-handed government enforcement and that the company?s expenses for the case likely exceeded $400,000.
EEOC?s release announcing the settlement included a statement from Woodson that the decision is ?validation that the American dream still exists and that one?s faith does not have to hold a person back from working in a job that he is qualified to perform.?
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