Government Lawyers Sue the Salvation Army for Requiring English

From the story: The Salvation Army has a policy that requires its employees to speak English on the job. In a 2003 opinion, a federal judge in Boston approved of the policy as a legitimate business practice. The next year, a Salvation Army store in Framingham, Mass., did what most of us would agree was the right thing to do: It gave two of its employees who spoke very little English a year to achieve a level of English proficiency required to do the job.

But when they had failed to do so by 2005, they were let go. That's when the U.S. government sued. Read more..