Nursing home (in SoCal) sued for prohibiting Spanish

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Article Last Updated: 9/17/2005

Nursing home sued for prohibiting Spanish

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

LOS ANGELES - A nursing home was sued Friday for allegedly discriminating against its Latino workers by prohibiting them from speaking Spanish on the job.

The lawsuit against Torrance-based Royalwood Care Center alleges that its English-only language rule violated federal law.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged that a worker, who spoke only Spanish, was fired for speaking his native tongue on the job. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeks reinstatement and backpay for the worker.

The agency alleged that other Latino workers also were reprimanded, but that the nursing home allowed non-Hispanic workers to speak their own language.

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