09-3082 Xodus v. Wackenhut Corp.

By: dmc-admin//August 30, 2010//

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Employment
Religious discrimination

Where an employer refused to hire an employee because he refused to cut his dreadlocks to conform with the employer's grooming policy, but the employee never gave a religious reason for refusing, the employer did not discriminate on the basis of religion.

"McCuller testified that he was not familiar with the Rastafarian faith and did not associate Xodus' statement of 'belief' with religion. The district court concluded that McCuller did not know that Xodus wore his dreadlocks for religious reasons, and that finding is not clearly erroneous. Nor does the fact that Xodus' name begins with the word 'Lord' persuade us that McCuller knew the dreadlocks were religious."

Affirmed.

09-3082 Xodus v. Wackenhut Corp.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Walter, J., Bauer, J.

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