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| Title | California State Senator Sends a Message on Language, Discrimination |
| Body | From http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1738545.html California state senator sends a message on language, discrimination By Susan Ferriss March 30, 2009 Witnessing someone humiliate his uncle for speaking broken English, says Leland Yee, was a childhood experience that stuck with him. The memory rushed back, the California state senator said, when the Ladies Professional Golf Association announced last September that it would start suspending foreign players – many of them South Koreans – if they lacked English proficiency. The LPGA backed down from the rule under a barrage of criticism from Lee, D-San Francisco, and civil rights groups that argued the idea seemed xenophobic. Yee now wants to make sure no one else tries to enact such a policy, at least in California. On Tuesday, the Senate's Judiciary Committee will review a bill he's introduced to change the state's Jesse Unruh Civil Rights Act. The proposal makes it illegal to prohibit the use of any language at a work site without a justified "business necessity." Read the full article at http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1738545.html . |
| Source | Sacramento Bee |
| Inputdate | 2009-04-15 04:28:27 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2009-04-15 04:28:27 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-04-20 00:00:00 |
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