Here is why employers SHOULD mandate “English only” in many employment situations.
I was in the McDonald’s in Thurmont, Maryland last week in the morning and 2 Hispanic men were talking to an Hispanic woman in Spanish. They used vile language to describe a person as, among other things, a prostitute. I’m lily white so they assumed I can’t speak Spanish fluently.
If that conversation had been in English and the manager heard them, he would have been appalled, told them to clean it up and considered firing them for using that language and subject in the store in front of customers. Their conversation was embarrassing and certainly laid the grounds for being sued under sexual harrassment laws.
The owner of a business should know what his employees are saying, particularly in this era of harrassment lawsuits.
