even women who work at a Department of Health clinic in Haines City say they were hired specifically because they speak both Spanish and English.
But now the women, all from Puerto Rico, say they have been threatened with being fired for speaking Spanish to each other in the office.
The women said they filed complaints last week with the Polk County Health Department’s Human Resources office and the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee. The women produced a letter sent to them by a supervisor in which they were told that they might be dismissed if they continued their habit of speaking to each other in Spanish.
