Plaintiff seeks to recover actual, compensatory, liquidated, and punitive damages for discrimination based upon discrimination concerning his disability. Plaintiff submits a request to the court for lost salary and benefits, future lost salary and benefits, and compensatory damages for emotional pain and suffering.
Discriminatory For Language In Middlesex
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Language discrimination occurs when a person is treated differently because of her native language or other characteristics of her language skills. For example, an employee may be experiencing language discrimination if the workplace has a “speak-English-only” policy but her primary language is one other than English.
One example of discrimination is suggesting a person's accent is “too difficult” to understand. Another example of linguistic discrimination is when a person does not take the time to learn the proper pronunciation of someone else's name.
Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied ...
Inclusive language is language that avoids bias, slang, or expressions that discriminate against groups of people. This includes avoiding terms that exclude people based on their gender, race, disability, or sexual orientation.
The U.S. Constitution says nothing about language (though it asserts freedom of speech in the First Amendment). During and after the war of indepen- dence, the issue of a national language did come up but was left without any formal decision.
An employer may not deny a person an employment opportunity because that person is not proficient or fluent in English, unless the job that person performs: 1) actually requires some English language skills, and 2) the person does not possess the particular type and level of English language skill required.
It can also involve a person's ability or inability to use one language instead of another. Because language discrimination is a form of national origin discrimination, the same body of law prohibits it.
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