May 27, 2021
Publix and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission staved off a trial slated for June with a deal to resolve the agency's suit claiming the grocery chain told a Rastafarian applicant he'd have to chop his dreadlocks to work at a Nashville store.
August 20, 2020
Publix Super Markets Inc. must face a trial over claims that it discriminated against a jilted Rastafarian job applicant who was told he'd have to cut his dreadlocks in order to work at a Nashville store, a Tennessee federal judge has ruled.
September 28, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has slapped Publix Super Markets Inc. with discrimination claims in Tennessee federal court after a Rastafarian was told he would have to cut his dreadlocks to work at a store even though it violated his religious beliefs, the agency said Wednesday.