A Metro employee is accusing the transit agency of religious discrimination, suing over practices that limited her ability to take off Fridays to attend Muslim prayer services. Najmah Rashad, a secretary in the agency’s legal office, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking some $400,000 in damages.

Her case is the latest accusation of religious discrimination at the agency. In February 2009, Metro settled a complaint by the U.S. Justice Department that said the transit agency discriminated against at least three women. One, a bus driver in training, was not allowed to wear a skirt in keeping with her Pentecostal Christian faith, while two Muslim employees were not allowed to wear hijab, meaning headscarves. Metro agreed to pay the women, provide religious sensitivity training for all supervisors and managers, plus create a policy accommodating religious practices.