Award in religious discrimination suit

A Phoenix jury has awarded more than $287,000 in a religious discrimination suit against Alamo Car Rental brought by US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC had charged that Alamo had committed “post-9/11 backlash discrimination based on religion” when it fired a Somali customer sales representative in December 2001 for refusing to remove her head scarf during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.