Arizona’s largest credit union has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a class religious and race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The EEOC charged the 270,000-member Desert Schools Federal Credit Union in 2003 with discriminating against a class of employees because they were not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or because they were African-American.
It is the first case of discrimination against non-Mormons the EEOC has prosecuted in Arizona, although the agency has taken on several cases in Utah, where the Mormon Church has its headquarters. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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