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Mill Worker Wins Religious Rights Suit, Won't Have to Work Friday Nights
Comments 0 | Recommend 0OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - An Oroville millworker is back at work after being fired by the country's second largest lumber producer
over a religious work conflict.
Sierra Pacific Industries fired Luciano Cortez in 2005 for refusing to work his Friday night swing shift rotation. The 41-year-old is a Seventh-day Adventist and observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
Cortez got his job back and a $110,000 settlement with help from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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