The EEOC has announced that it has settled two religious discrimination lawsuits in Minnesota involving accommodating Muslim employees with paid prayer time. More after the break.
In an opinion dated November 19, 2007, Andrews v. Virginia Union Univ., No. 3:07-cv-00447-REP (E.D.Va.), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied a motion to dismiss disparate treatment and failure to accommodate religious discrimination claims brought by a Baptist minister against Virginia Union University. Rev. Gwendolyn Andrews, a Baptist minister and former chair of VUU’s Department of Social Work filed a Title VII complaint against VUU after the University did not renew her appointment as Department Chair. The University’s decision allegedly came shortly after Andrews complained that a new University policy prohibited students and faculty from referring to her as “Reverend.”
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