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Equality Commissioner: the requirement that employees of another nationality must communicate in Estonian during their free time is indirect discrimination on the basis of nationality
Estonian laws provide for the use of the Estonian language as the main language of communication, but the international labor market leads to the need for different languages. What can the employer demand from the employee in such a situation and when can the language requirement become discriminatory?
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Estonian laws provide for the use of the Estonian language as the main language of communication, but the international labor market leads to the need for different languages. What can the employer demand from the employee in such a situation and when can the language requirement become discriminatory?