New Jersey employers can violate the state’s civil rights law if a workerfaces discrimination or harassment tied to their language or accent, the attorney general’s office said in a new guidance memo.

Recently, the 6th Circuit ruled that an employer's negative statements about an employee's accent may be deemed to be direct evidence of discrimination, requiring the employer to demonstrate that it ...

Over and over again, I’ve witnessed many people, most of whom are new immigrants, tourists, or English language learners apologize for their ability to speak English before starting a conversation.

Arabic dialects have long carried a stigma and been dismissed as slang, but linguists are calling for them to be viewed as a source of pride. On the closing day of the International Congress of Arabic ...