Kansas City - A Muslim woman who was fired from her job with
AT&T says years of harassment hit a peak when her boss snatched her
scarf from her head and exposed her hair.
A jury awarded former Kansas City resident Susann
Bashir $5m in punitive damages Thursday, along with $120 000 in
lost wages and other actual damages.
The Kansas City Star newspaper reports the award
appears to be the largest jury verdict in a workplace discrimination
case in Missouri history.
Bashir says the harassment began soon after she
converted to Islam in 2005. She was fired after she left work in 2008
because of stress after filing a complaint with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission and then didn't come back for nine months.
AT&T says it plans to appeal.