Rasta threatened with sack because of hair

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he cut his hair.

An administrative judge has issued an interim ruling in favour of Josue Brissot and scheduled a February hearing on potential compensation.

The American Civil Liberties Union said that Brissot was assured when the Transportation Security Administration hired him in 2002 that his long dreadlocks were not a problem.

By 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union says, he was being told his hair was against agency policy and he would be fired unless he cut it. Brissot says he keeps his hair long for religious reasons.

- AP