US agency sues Apple for alleged discrimination against Jewish worker | CNN Business

The US agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws sued Apple on Tuesday, claiming the manager of a retail store made antisemitic comments and denied a Jewish employee’s requests for time off before firing him.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the manager of the Reston, Virginia, Apple store told the worker, Tyler Steele, that he smelled like body odor, forced him to work on the Jewish Sabbath and warned him not to discuss the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel with coworkers.

The lawsuit in Alexandria, Virginia federal court accuses Apple of religious discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights

→ Continue reading at CNN - Business News

More from author

Related posts

Advertisment

Latest posts

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of kirigami

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a two-time winner of the D.C....

AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria killer

Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working genomes.  Two AI models designed the blueprints for 16...

This Startup Wants to Put Its Brain-Computer Interface in the Apple Vision Pro

Startup Cognixion announced today that it is launching a clinical trial of its wearable brain-computer interface technology integrated with the Apple Vision Pro to...