A Muslim employee who as fired from her job as a hotel housekeeper at the Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady, New York has filed a lawsuit against the casino and its supervisors, claiming religious discrimination.
The lawsuit asks that Spady be compensated for lost income and benefits, damage to her “career,” psychological and emotional distress, humiliation, and mental and physical pain and anguish, as well as with punitive damages. Spady seeks economic, non-economic, compensatory and punitive damages, as well as interest, attorneys’ fees and other costs.
Roma Spady — a 57-year-old devout African-American Muslim — wore a hijab to work, and says she was harassed, retaliated against, and eventually fired after working as a housekeeper at the casino’s hotel for more than a year.
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