In recent years I hear more and more complaints from Americans with English as a first language who are willing to work for low wages complain about shops where thy can’t get in because all they hire is Latinos. I see the same thing in fast food restauraunts that have Latino managers. It seems to becomming so prevailant that I feel it needs to be addressed. Does this issue come up with govt from time to time?
I can’t seem to find anything definitive about what you are asking for; Hispanic managers preferentially hiring Latino/a workers, and this issue taking legal paths such that the government would be made aware of it.
Just word finding “hispanic” in this Government website of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which summarizes a good amount of “Significant EEOC Race/Color Cases” from 2003-2015, leads me to believe that the reason for preferentially hiring Hispanics over other races, is that the managers (equally of any race) find Hispanics to be much harder/better workers who do not complain about their pay or working conditions.
A 2015 case, reported by Fox News, is just that; a Mexican restaurant in Minnesota that explicitly only has white managers, actively filling every lower position with Hispanics for their superior work ethic and tolerance of abuse. Latino | Fox News
Now while this 2006 study entitled Manager Race and the Race of New Hires does find:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jrNRj5f68koJ:http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/150-07.pdf%2B%2Bdeportation&hl=en&gbv=1&ct=clnk
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all non-black managers—i.e., whites, Hispanics, and Asians—
hire more whites and fewer blacks than do black managers. The differences between non-black and black managers are especially large in the South. Second, in locations with large Hispanic populations, Hispanic managers hire more Hispanics and fewer whites than white managers.
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I still can not find any trends about instances of Hispanic managers hiring mostly Hispanics, and the slighted other-race workers taking the case up the court chain, such that the EEOC would take note of it.
Just that managers (of unknown race) do like to fill out their staff with Hispanics; just as others like to fill them with whites, or others like to fill the worst jobs with blacks.
My cousin has this complaint. As far as I can tell, it boils down to “I see more and more Hispanic faces in my industry, and I have trouble finding and keeping a job. Reverse racism!” What he does not take into account is that he is rather lazy and inefficient,* and prioritizes his church over his job to an extent that any employer would find problematic. He is in a part of the country where the Hispanic presence has expanded a lot since we were young,** in both numbers and occupational areas.
He hears a lot of Spanish, which serves to reinforce his biases and persecution complex.
*His weight is a factor: he is so obese that he has difficulty in performing many basic tasks that are not a problem for the ordinary person, fat or not fat.
**Though, as I delight in reminding him, our grandmother’s favorite cousin married a guy from Mexico in the 1940s and we have plenty of Hispanic relatives.
All managers discriminate when hiring, some more blatantly than others.
I was going to come here and say “Every working stiff knows that Latinos discriminate against non-Latinos. Blacks discriminate against whites. Jews discriminate against gentiles. But if regular white men are even ACCUSED of discriminating against anyone, God help them against the wrath of the lefties. Every working stiff knows this. This is why Trump is winning.”
But then I saw that a fatty was involved, and decided to shut up. Fatties are lazy, consume a disproportionate amount of resources, excessively commit to global warming, damage CAFE mileage standards, and often smell bad.
I worked at one place where the Hispanic boss would walk into a room of mixed coworkers and go up to and chat in Spanish with the other Hispanics. Those also spoke english.
Now that might be ok if one wasnt a boss but I could see grounds for a suit if the hispanic got a promotion and it was proven the hispanic boss made a point to only giving directions in Spanish.
This is bogus - there’s plenty of barely above minimal wage jobs out there. Go work somewhere else, managers that suck come in all shades/ethnicities so beware…
If you have any reasonable amount of education, and any reasonable job experience you very quickly get into “English mostly/only” jobs category
Just as a followup, what the fuck are you talking about?
Well, leaving aside the broad brush, I think it has more to do with nepotism than with a racial bias, at least in my experience. In certain parts of the South West, where you see more hispanic/latino managers, there is also a strong amount of nepotism or the good old boys network of friends and family that heavily influences hiring, especially in the past, though you can see this even today. You see this mostly in local government (i.e. at the city and county, less so usually at the state level where I think there is more of a microscope on things…though it happens even there in some states IME).
Which isn’t to say that this is a huge issue or that it’s systemic by any means. It happens. But then, it happens with other ethnic groups in similar ways when we are talking about local populations and local jobs.
Could there be an extra factor in play?
Imagine that you genuinely don’t care about a would-be employee’s race or ethnicity; you truly just want to hire the best candidate for the job.
Oh, and ‘bilingual’ is, in fact, a plus. The white guy only speaks English? Oh, too bad. The black guy only speaks English? That’s a shame. Candidate #3 is fluent in two languages? Well, all else being equal, he’s the guy, right? Maybe even if all else isn’t equal, because you’ve got employees who don’t speak English and you get customers who don’t speak English, so being bilingual is a huge plus.
It wouldn’t always be so – but who would you disproportionately end up hiring?
If only! 