If a Dominican worker speaks Spanish to a fellow worker while working on an assembly line and gets fired, is this considered discrimination?
Normally, there is no “business necessity” for the worker to speak only in English while working on the assembly line, unless s/he is giving instructions to a non-Spanish speaking person. However, again, courts are sometimes hostile to language minorities and do not give them the respect and rights that they are due under federal law. English Only rules can violate your civil righs not to be discriminated against based on ethnicity. The policy of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency designed to protect employees from discrimination, reads: ” Prohibiting employees from speaking their native language at all times in the workplace, discriminates against them on the basis of their ethnicity. It may also create an atmosphere of inferiority, isolation and intimidation.
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