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Requiring English not automatically biased

10/04/2019

For years, the EEOC has taken the position that rules requiring employees to speak only English at work are discriminatory unless the employer can justify the rule as a business necessity. But now a federal court has concluded that before making an employer justify the rule’s necessity, the affected worker has to show that the policy has a disparate impact on a protected group.

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