You Must Speak Spanish — But Not On Your Break
As seen on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is sueing the company “Sephora” on behalf of several employees of their NYC store. The five women say they were hired because they were bilingual, and are required to assist spanish speaking customers; but they were told they couldn’t speak spanish to each other — even during their lunch break.
Sephora denies having any form of “English Only” policy, so there’s not much detail for the article to go into on this particular case, but it does mention some interesting situations from the past relating to such policies, why some companies have them, who thinks they are good, and how other companies thrive without them.
