School, EEOC Settle English-Only Suit
A private Catholic university in Texas has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a federal lawsuit involving Latino housekeepers who contended that they were ordered to speak only English, were called “dumb Mexicans” and were physically abused by their supervisor.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission represented the 18 former housekeepers in the suit against the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. The commission said it was the largest known legal settlement over English-only rules in the workplace.
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