In an effort to provide documentary evidence of discrimination, the Sikh Coalition today is releasing a short video of Sukhvir Kaur discussing her experience with employment discrimination at a National Wholesale Liquidators store in New York.

By way of background, on September 29, 2006, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) issued a determination that Sukhvir Kaur suffered unlawful discrimination in part as a result of being told to take off her turban and that Sikhs are “thieves and are nasty.” The EEOC issued the finding after a year long investigation initiated when Sukhvir in collaboration with the Sikh Coalition and a private attorney, Ravinder Singh (Bhalla), filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC. [Sikh Coalition Press Release]