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 Salt Lake
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About 15% of Utah residents older than age 5 speak a language other than English at home.
While the majority of Utah's population – which is estimated at 3.38 million residents – do speak English. However, among residents aged five and up, approximately 15.4 percent (around 520,643 people) speak a language other than English when at home.
Utah % Speak only English 85.6% Speak language other than English 14.4% Speak English "very well" 11.6% Speak English less than "very well" (LEP) 2.7%20 more rows
Official state language. English is declared to be the official language of Utah.
In other words, while the largest share of the U.S. population (78.4%) speaks only English at home, a growing share (21.6%) of U.S. households speak languages other than English.
Today, an estimated 20% of Salt Lake's population is Hispanic. Similarly, an estimated 25% of Salt Lakers are Native American. And there are pockets of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the area.
There are similar recent examples, such as the imposition of French in Haitian schools instead of Haitian Creole. Likewise, Jane Okang, the Founding President of Amanfrom Academy, was forced to speak only English at her school in Ghana even though she knew several other languages.
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.
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.