News-journal.com - An agreement reached Tuesday in federal court requires the parent company of a Longview Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits to pay $25,000 to a man who said he was denied employment because he has the virus that causes AIDS.

The consent decree between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Famous Chicken of Shreveport also orders the company to train its management in federal anti-discrimination laws with additional hours of school for its human resources director.

The federal commission brought its complaint Sept. 23, 2013, on behalf of Noah Crawford on Sept. 12, 2013. The complaint says Crawford, who was not a plaintiff in the federal case, had learned three months before applying for work at a Longview Popeye’s in 2011 that he had tested positive for HIV.

Crawford had revealed his condition during an interview, when asked why he had checked a box marked “medical” on his application. Continue