Having an accent in English has long been considered a disadvantage. Many of my clients come to me with concerns that their accented English is a liability to career advancement. Though I am not an ...

Recently, the 6th Circuit ruled that an employer's negative statements about an employee's accent may be deemed to be direct evidence of discrimination, requiring the employer to demonstrate that it ...

From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents they are spoken in. Studies have found that infants show a preference for ...