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Firm sued over language policy

Paris: French employees would accuse an American multinational in court on Tuesday of discrimination, claiming that they are being forced to speak English. They say General Electric Medical Systems is sidelining the large proportion of its workforce who speak little or no English. It encourages them to work with company documents and instruction manuals written in English. ``The company has an American ideology which has been accepted by a lot of the French managers, who think it is chic and looks good to speak English, even to their French colleagues,'' Jocelyne Chabart, a secretary, said on Monday. Emails are often sent in English, even if the recipient and the sender are French, and meetings chaired and attended exclusively by French staff are at times conducted in English, she said. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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