Man Gets Job Back After Religion Dispute

Millworker Receives $110K Settlement

OROVILLE, Calif. -- An Oroville millworker is back at work after being fired by the country's second largest lumber producer over a religious work conflict.

Sierra Pacific Industries fired Luciano Cortez in 2005 for refusing to work his Friday night swing shift rotation.

The 41-year-old is a Seventh-day Adventist and observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.

Cortez got his job back and a $110,000 settlement with help from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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