The Teeth Doctors, a North Carolina-based dental company, agreed to provide $61,000 to a former employee to settle a religious discrimination charge filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. The EEOC’s investigation found that The Teeth Doctors, operated by dentist Jeremiah C. Davis in Fayetteville, violated federal law when the company failed to provide the employee with a religious accommodation and instead fired her after she requested an accommodation to wear a scrub skirt instead of scrub pants due to her sincerely held religious beliefs. The clinic’s alleged conduct violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination because of an individual’s religion and requires employers to reasonably accommodate the employee’s religious observance or practice unless doing so would cause undue hardship.