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| Abercrombie & Fitch head scarf case: US Supreme Court rules for Muslim Samantha Elauf, refused job after wearing scarf to interview | Abercrombie & Fitch head scarf case: US Supreme Court rules for Muslim Samantha Elauf, refused job after wearing scarf to interview |
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| The Supreme Court has sided with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wearing a head scarf. | The Supreme Court has sided with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wearing a head scarf. |
| Jutices on Monday said that employers generally have to accommodate job applicants and employees with religious needs if the employer at least has an idea that such accommodation is necessary. | |
| On a 8-1 vote, the court handed victory to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency that sued the company on behalf of Samantha Elauf. She was denied a sales job in 2008 at an Abercrombie Kids store in Tulsa when she was 17. | |
| Job applicant Ms Elauf did not tell her interviewer she was Muslim, Reuters reported. | |
| But Justice Antonin Scalia said for the court that Abercrombie "at least suspected" that Ms Elauf wore a head scarf for religious reasons. | |
| Mr Scalia said: "That is enough." | Mr Scalia said: "That is enough." |