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(RNS) Sikh and Muslim transit workers in New York City are celebrating the settlement of a federal lawsuit that will allow them to wear turbans on the job, in public and without affixing Metropolitan Transit Authority logos to them. They will just have to be the same blue color as the MTA...

A Brooklyn judge gave the okay Tuesday to a federal lawsuit accusing New York City Transit of discriminating against Muslim and Sikh employees. Transit officials require employees wearing turbans and head scarves to affix the agency logo to the garment, prompting a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice...

Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit System wins Sustainable Transport Award in Washington Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Janmarg Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) has been hailed as the best mass transit system in the country. On Tuesday, it beat four of the world’s prominent cities in Washington DC to...

Phagwara, July 16: Punjab Police will soon construct a transit accomodation at Chandigarh to facilitate the cops visiting Chandigarh for official purposes. More...

Sikh Employee Unwilling Poster Boy For Transit Authority Dress Code (The New York Sun) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=116gj2p99/*http%3A//www.nysun.com/article/35932 Array Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:47:09 GMT A Sikh transit authority employee has unwillingly emerged as the...

A number of Sikh transit employees in New York filed discrimination charges over a policy requiring them to display company logos on their turbans...

A number of Sikh transit employees in New York filed discrimination charges today over a policy requiring them to display company logos on their turbans. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mm5u507/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=310884

Five Sikhs who say the Metropolitan Transportation Authority humiliated them by ordering them to wear MTA logos on their turbans when they work in the subways filed federal discrimination complaints Friday...

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September 30, 2004, 7:06 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday charging New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation's largest transit agency, with discriminating against employees who wear religious head coverings. The complaint alleges...