RENO, NEVADA — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against a California-based trucking company on April 3, 2026, accusing it of religious discrimination after it kept scheduling a Christian truck driver for Sunday shifts despite his repeated requests to attend church — and ultimately drove him to quit.
The lawsuit targets Blue Eagle Contracting, Inc., a Grass Valley, California company that hauls bulk mail for the U.S. Postal Service between Reno and Tonopah, Nevada. The EEOC alleges Blue Eagle violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employers from failing to accommodate employees’ religious practices without undue hardship.
What Happened
Blue Eagle hired the driver in September 2022 and assigned him a weekday route. He told supervisors from the start that he had religious obligations on Sunday mornings due to his Christian faith. The arrangement worked — until a coworker unexpectedly resigned.
The driver volunteered to cover the Sunday shift on a temporary emergency basis. He made clear to supervisors multiple times that he needed Sunday mornings for church and was only filling in until a replacement came on board. Blue Eagle hired a replacement driver. Then it kept scheduling the original driver for Sundays anyway — and gave the replacement his old weekday route.
The driver complained. Blue Eagle kept scheduling him for Sundays. Faced with no path back to his weekday shift, he resigned in December 2022.
What the EEOC Says
“Employers are bound by federal law to explore a range of possible accommodations to ensure that employees retain their right to freely exercise their faith,” said Christopher Green, district director for the EEOC’s San Francisco District Office.
Senior EEOC Trial Attorney Mariko Ashley added: “To force employees to choose between exercising their religious beliefs and their livelihoods, absent undue burden on the employer, violates the law and the EEOC will hold employers accountable.”
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada under case number 3:26-cv-00226 after attempts to reach a pre-litigation settlement through administrative conciliation failed.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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