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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: TomSea on May 05, 2018, 10:49:01 am
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Albertsons in San Diego faces suit over no-Spanish language policy
A grocery store in San Diego allegedly subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no-Spanish language policy, federal officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit alleging store managers at Albertsons publicly reprimanded Hispanic employees who were caught speaking Spanish. The workers were barred from speaking Spanish around non-Spanish speakers, even during breaks or when talking to Spanish-speaking customers, the lawsuit said.
No action was taken despite employee complaints, causing some workers to transfer to other stores, according to the EEOC.
Read more at: https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/04/albertsons-in-san-diego-faces-suit-over-no-spanish-language-policy/ (https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/04/albertsons-in-san-diego-faces-suit-over-no-spanish-language-policy/)
If this is just one store, so what, really.
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How interesting! A lawsuit challenging a store for speaking the native language - English. Go to Montreal and see how concerned they are if you don't speak French. I think the real issue is forcing interpreters on all stores and financially ruining them. If the courts hold stores must have interpreters, it will be a rejection of a store's rights to run things the way the see fit, and if a store is required by the courts to have one interpreter, they will need 15-20 to take care of everyone.