Quest Diagnostics will pay $90,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a phlebotomist working in Rockwall, Texas.
The employee, a practicing Seventh-day Adventist, had received time off to accommodate her religious beliefs for the first nine years she worked for Quest, according to the EEOC. Seventh-day Adventists attend church on Saturdays, while avoiding secular work and business from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
But during the employee’s 10th year with the company in 2019, Quest denied her religious accommodation and fired her after she failed to work scheduled Saturday shifts, the EEOC said.
