Some customers don't either.
This is one of my hot button issues. To me it comes down
to respect. Why be in a country that you dont want to be a part of? The answer to that is they want to take and have no desire to give back. Enough is enough already.
The English language is used here. Period.
I like speak English everywhere in USA.
It’s legal not to hire someone that doesn’t speak Spanish.
So if the employees are using Spanish to make racist and sexist comments about their co-workers, they have “free speech” not afforded other employees?
I think any empoyer should be able to demand english only in the workplace.
HOWEVER, I think it is a little extreme for an employer to get so upset his workers were speaking spanish ON THEIR BREAK. It’s none of his business what these employees are saying or what language they are saying it in while on break. I think employers should leave employees alone while on their break.
The solution to this is simple. An English-only speaker needs to file a EEOC suit claiming a “hostile work environment” and from Spanish speakers.
If an employee doesn't like an employer's English-only policy, the employee is perfectly free to seek employment elsewhere. Likewise, if an employer does not want his employees to speak Spanish, he should be perfectly free to let them go if they do so.
I feel the same way whether the employer wants an English-only or a Spanish-only policy. This is not something the government needs to meddle with.
How about we apply this to what they listen to on the radio if it is allowed in the workplace? The station should be an English-language station only-preferably some kind of non-offensive music: NO rap, hip-hop or techno.
We have a choice - but we better not wait too long.
Vote for the people that support keeping America English-speaking!
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The union anf the contractors should be reported to ICE.
Yet another reason to just disband this group of nanny-state ninnies.
Today, while shopping, all I heard was a cacophony of spanish.
To be an American citizen, one must be able to speak English. I also seriously doubt if these 50% possess legitimate Green Cards. What is going on here is blatantly illegal and ICE needs to get involved!
Also, Liberals don't see any problem with employers denying me my Second Amendment rights in their workplace. So, what's the problem with denying something much less draconian and more reasonable - like the employees speaking a foreign language at work?
What???!!!!! The guy pulls a knife on them, and he's prosecuted not for that but for DISCRIMINATION?????
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Problem where I am situated is that people have a hard time understanding me because I speak clear ENGLISH!!!!!!!! I think we are living in a parallel universe, one where the bizarro is the gaining norm./Just Asking - seoul62........
It is natural for them to want to speak Spanish to other native Spanish speakers, just as it would be natural for us to speak English to another native English speaker, no matter how long both of us may have resided in a non-English speaking country whose language we have learned.
And also just as it was natural for immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century to speak Italian and Yiddish to each other, and for immigrants in the nineteenth century to speak German to each other.
The children of these immigrants will always speak English better than they speak their parents' native tongue, and the grandchildren of these immigrants will often not be able to speak a word of it.
It has and will always be the American way, as long as America is a place that welcomes (legal) immigrants from other countries.