Sikh truckers reach settlement in faith discrimination case
Source: Associated Press
Brian Melley, Associated Press
Updated 8:02 pm, Tuesday, November 15, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) The trucker with the long white beard and turban faced a dilemma over work he desperately needed that would require him to violate the tenets of his Sikh religion by cutting hair that had never been cropped.
It wasn't about the way Lakhbir Singh looked that was an issue it was just a clipping for a drug test. When he refused to go against one of Sikhism's five articles of faith, he lost the job.
"It was one of the hardest times of my life," Singh said through an interpreter of the incident five years ago. "My body went numb and I had tears in my eyes."
Singh was one of four Sikh truckers from California who will split a 260,000 settlement from J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. to resolve discrimination charges, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.
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