In the case of Garcia v.Spun Steak Co.,the court followed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC)guidelines and held that the English-only rule in the workplace violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) takes the position that English-only rules applied at all times or only applied to certain foreign speakers are presumptively discriminatory, although the courts have not always agreed with that approach. In the case of Garcia v. Spun Steak Co., the court rejected the argument that the policy was discriminatory because it denied Spanish-speaking employees the ability to express their cultural heritage, denied them a privilege of employment enjoyed by speakers of English as a first language, and created an atmosphere of inferiority and intimidation. The court stated that "Title VII is not meant to protect against rules that merely inconvenience some employees, even if the inconvenience falls regularly on a protected class."

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