Chipotle to Pay $20,000 to End Suit Alleging Anti-Muslim Bias

Chipotle Services LLC will pay $20,000 and adopt policies ensuring employees at eight Kansas restaurants comply with federal antidiscrimination law, under an agreement to resolve religious bias claims by a Muslim worker whose hijab was partially removed by a coworker.

Chipotle will pay Areej Saifan $11,000 for both wage- and non-wage-related compensatory damages and pay another $9,000 for the worker’s attorneys fees and costs, according to a consent decree the company entered with Saifan and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Judge Kathryn H. Vratil signed off on the agreement on March 28 in the US District Court for the ...