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Chicago Tribune - September 3, 2001
Korrin Krause worked only one day as a grocery bagger at Quality Foods IGA before the manager called her mother to verify she had HIV and said she no longer had a job, Krause alleges.
"I'm an innocent kid trying to live her life," she said.
Krause said she was fired in February and later filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which 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 and invited both sides to work on a settlement. Punitive damages would be considered, the official said.
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