Labor/Employment
Oct. 28, 2011
State prisons settle discrimination case
A Sikh man denied work as a state corrections officer because of his long beard will receive $295,000 and a desk job as part of a settlement reached with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Sikh man denied work as a state corrections officer because of his long beard will receive $295,000 and a desk job as part of a settlement reached with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
TThe resolution ends a more than 6-year legal battle between the state and Trilochan Oberoi, an Indian immigrant who applied to work as a guard at Folsom State Prison near Sacramento. Lawyers for the ...
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