New Mexico (AP) - in the face of threat to boycott, whole foods on Friday announced the suspension of two spanish-speaking Albuquerque employees organic food chain has revised the language policy of employees.
Whole foods market, joint chief executive walter rob said in a blog post on Friday, after the recent "unfortunate incident" in Albuquerque, the change of policy, "it doesn't reflect the company headquartered in Austin, Texas, is not aligned, the spirit of the company."
"First of all, we sincerely apologize, our manual in a paragraph about the team members in the workplace interaction didn't write clear, it create any misunderstanding or illegal ACTS," rob said. "Its purpose is to promote inclusive, not exclusive."
Last week, two Albuquerque, workers say, they are complaining about the policy, paid to suspend a day. A whole food, said a spokesman for the previous policy requires all the english-speaking workers must to speak English to customers and other employees, and in the clock, unless the customer speak another language."
Suspension and policy news sparked anger, and the United States, new Mexico, Latin America, citizens alliance groups such as the boycott threat.
New Mexico's governor, governor of the republican and the only Latin suzanne martinez, regularly review the language policy of employees by the company, including Spanish in history, such as new Mexico.
Robb said, "receive pay, one-day suspended their workplace behavior, not to speak Spanish."
According to new policy announced on Friday, the staff speak English, need to communicate with English speaking customers were asked to "please talk to them in English, unless customer request, otherwise".
The policy also require employees "to ensure that you are sensitive to other people may want to join your conversation, or to ask you a question, if you need to switch to a common language, tolerance and respect", speak other language in the work.
Who doesn't understand English employees were asked to tell the manager will help translation, said policy.
LULAC walter said that the company has sent new Mexico and the American civil liberties union of original and the revised policy and their feedback. Whole foods, he said, would "continue to dialogue with these groups."
Ralph Arellanes LULAC of new Mexico, director of the state, said the new policy is "step in the right direction", and look forward to the further, said company officials in the scheduled meeting next month.
"Usually, when such a thing was revealed, there are some other problems to be solved, such as population structure beneath the surface of the employees and management," said Arellanes. "New Mexico was foreign, but (Hispanic) there is a history can be traced back to 400 years ago."



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