"Delta employees claim they were fired for speaking Korean, reporting sexual harassment", 17 Jul 2018

Four former Delta employees are suing the airline for allegedly firing them for speaking Korean and reporting sexual harassment in the workplace, claiming “race and national origin discrimination and retaliation.”  Ji-Won Kim, Lilian Park, Jean Yi and Jongjin An have a combined 50 years’ experience working as desk and gate agents for the airline...All four women...dealt with passengers flying to and from South Korea on a regular basis...But while the women...claim their ability to speak Korean was one of the reasons Delta initially hired them, they now believe it’s the primary reason they were terminated...The lawsuit...alleges that "though assigned to work flights to and from Korea, composed of many Korean-speaking passengers, they were singled out and admonished for speaking Korean," KIRO 7 reports...The women also believe their termination came as retaliation for complaints they filed against another Delta employee for sexual harassment.  The women were reportedly harassed multiple times by the same person while on the job...[T]he airline released the following statement to KIRO 7: "...We take allegations of workplace harassment and discrimination very seriously and our investigations into allegations made by these former employees were found to be without merit..."