Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Colorado
employment
Is it disrimination if you are not biligual? I have worked at a place for almost a year and now a position has opened and they dont want to even interview me since I'm not fluent in spanish just conversational. My boss several times told me to apply for the position and now does not want to even give me a chance to get the position I have been doing since October of 2006.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: employment
It certainly is discrimination to require a prospective employee to be fluent in Spanish: it discriminates against all applicants who aren't fluent in Spanish. But there's nothing illegal about it, as you describe it, just as it wouldn't be illegal discrimination to require an applicant for a position as an immigration attorney to speak Spanish.
Discrimination, yup. Illegal, no.
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