Virginia Security Company Agrees To Settle EEOC’s Bias Suit Over Facial Hair

(January 5, 2024, 12:38 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Virginia company that provides protective services to federal agencies will pay a former employee $110,759 and provide other relief to end a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it allegedly failed to provide accommodation to and then fired an employee who held a Christian belief that men must wear beards, according to the consent decree signed by a federal judge in the District of Columbia....