Local Sikh sues IRS after losing job over religious knife

A local Sikh woman sued the Internal Revenue Service this week, alleging that the IRS violated her religious freedom by prohibiting her from wearing a small ceremonial knife to her job as a revenue agent. The lawsuit, filed in Houston federal district court on Tuesday, states that the IRS fired Kawaljeet Kaur Tagore in July 2006 because she refused to take off her kirpan, a knife.

[a little tricky; normally when you're on the company's time your actions aren't yours and you do as they say or walk ('at will employment') - but when it's a government agency all things become political...]

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