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Associated Press - Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001
Bernard Enkro, owner of Quality Foods IGA, said Korrin Krause was offered another job as an office clerical worker after the store discovered she has the AIDS virus.
"Our interest was in protecting her health, not removing her from the store," Enkro said in a statement Wednesday.
The girl's attorney, Christopher Krimmer, said Thursday she was never offered another job. There was only talk that if the store had a clerical job, management would consider her, he said.
"They are backtracking," he said.
The girl has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Americans with Disabilities Act bars employers from asking about a worker's HIV status or discriminating against them because of it.
A commission official concluded in May there was reasonable cause to believe a violation had occurred, invited both sides to work on a settlement and said compensatory and punitive damages would be considered.
The girl worked only one day at the store in February before the manager called her mother to verify that she had HIV, then said she no longer had a job, her family said.
Krause, a high school sophomore, was born with the virus. Her biological mother, who also had HIV, died in 1994. Medical experts say people cannot transmit HIV by handling groceries.
Krause has since gotten a job at a clothing store.
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