Seven Puerto Rican workers from Central Florida said they were threatened with losing their jobs because they spoke Spanish inside their workplace, Channel 8 News reported. The all-women group, consisting of five nurses, a secretary, and an administrative assistant who work in the Florida Health Department clinic in Haines City in Polk County, said their jobs were endangered because they communicated in their native language.
“I don’t feel comfortable. I feel like if I speak Spanish they’re watching me, they’re going to fire me. They’re going to do something because I’m speaking my language,” one of the women said to Channel 8.
