press release. The suit alleges the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans religious discrimination in employment.The two, Brenda Lawson and Trudy Rickerd, worked at a Kroger store in Conway, Ark., near Little Rock.
They have “sincerely held religious beliefs that homosexuality is a sin,” according to the EEOC complaint, filed Monday in U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.Kroger introduced the apron with a rainbow heart embroidered on the bib in April 2019, and all employees were required to wear it, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
It’s actually unclear from the suit if the heart was a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, the paper notes. But both employees refused to wear it, and.