RD's Drive-In Restaurant in Page, Ariz., has reinstated its requirement that employees speak English while on the job, ending a five-year legal tussle, according to ProEnglish.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the drive-in in 2002, saying it was discriminating against its Navajo employees by requiring them to speak English on the job.
The interest group ProEnglish stepped in to help the drive-in with legal costs as it fought the suit, but they lost in court in a federal appeals court in September. Now the drive-in has rescinded the original policy and put a new policy in place that includes a revised English policy.
The case is similar to another one ongoing in Massachusetts. The Senate passed a spending bill that would end that EEOC lawsuit, and that bill is being squared with the House.
A conference to hammer out differences had been scheduled for earlier this week but has been put off.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
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Posted by Dee | December 5, 2007 9:58 AM