Why The 'Onionhead' Verdict May Make Employers Cry

By Barbara Hoey and Alyssa Smilowitz (June 5, 2018, 11:49 AM EDT) -- In a case we have been monitoring for quite some time, a jury in Brooklyn recently returned a verdict of $5.1 million against employers United Health Programs, or UHP, and its parent company Cost Containment Group, or CCG,[1] finding that CCG's insistence that its employees follow a practice called "Onionhead" amounted to religious discrimination. After a three-week trial, the federal jury concluded in late April that the company violated federal law....

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