Hispanic employees entitled to trial on city’s English-only policy in Oklahoma

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Triable issues existed as to whether city defendants’ English-only policy created a hostile work environment for a group of Hispanic employees, concluded the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Maldonado v City of Altus, Okla, 10thCir, 87 EPD ¶42,207)

At issue was the city’s policy, which required employees to speak English in all work related and business communications, except when necessary to communicate with a citizen/business owner in their own native language. The policy exempted private communications between coworkers while they were on an approved lunch hour, break or before and after work, so long as city property was not used for the communication. The policy also excused private communications between employees and their family members that were “limited in time” and “not disruptive to the work environment.” Approximately 29 city employees were Hispanic, “the only significant national-origin minority group affected by the policy.”"

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