My job is refusing to pay hispanic workers for translations?

[Anonymous]

My job refuses to pay hispanic workers for translations and interpretation, therefore they made a language line available to all non Spanish speaking employees because our town is about 54% hispanic. Yesterday an employee utilized a hispanic employee to make a call then proceeded to walk away and go into his supervisors office and said im never using the language line they come here on a boat they can leave on a boat, they need to speak English... this was relayed to me by another coworker that felt uncomfortable with the comment and advised me to not translate for him anymore. Well i was highly offended and reported it and also told the other employee to report it! Do you feel that my actions were just? Also, why do i feel so wrong reporting things like that? like i'm going to be penalized for speaking my mind!

[jshm2]

You're not making sense.

The language line service, if provided by the business, must be used as a work tool. You cannot rely on "favours" from unvetted language speakers.

[dustybiker]

English was not the land that became America’s first language.