Nov. 11, 2010
The English-Only Rule Is a Slippery Slope
Employers should be cautious about enforcing English-only policies in the workplace.
Jaffe D. Dickerson
Jaffe Dickerson Legal and Consulting, PCRuth Benson
Call the automated customer service line of nearly any California business or public utility and the first prompt you hear will likely be: "Welcome! To continue in English, press one; in Spanish, press two." This happens despite the 1986 amendment to the California Constitution declaring English "the Official Language of California" and that the legislature "shall make no law which diminishes or ignores the role of English as the "common language" of California. Fast forward to the 2008 ...
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