UPS Will Pay $4.9M To End EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

Mealey's (January 3, 2019, 12:21 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed, via a consent decree filed Dec. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to pay $4.9 million to end a religious bias lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the delivery company’s policy prohibiting male employees in supervisory or customer contact positions from growing beards or their hair below collar length (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. United Parcel Service, Inc., No. 15-4141, E.D. N.Y.)....