The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed several new lawsuits arising out of post-9/11 backlash in the workplace. In one case, the agency has sued Alamo Rental Car on behalf of a Muslim employee who was denied a workplace accommodation to wear a headscarf during the holy month of Ramadan in December 2001. Another lawsuit alleges that Chromalloy Tampa Castings Corp. fired an employee of Palestinian descent just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, for no reason other than his national origin. The EEOC has also sued the Worcester Art Museum in Boston, charging that the museum singled out an Afghan-American Muslim security guard for disciplinary termination, despite evidence that other security guards had committed similar infractions.
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