New Employee bash script

I am new to bash scripting. I have a script that i am working on for a school project and its not working as expected. I keep receiving a error on my if then statements.

#!/bin/bash
echo –e “Would you like to add a new employee’s information? y/n \n”
read EMPLOYEE
if [ $EMPLOYEE = “y” –o $EMPLOYEE = “Y” ]
then
echo –e “Please enter employee’s first name  \c”
read FIRST
echo –e “Please enter employee’s last name  \c”
read LAST
echo –e “Please enter empolyee’s ID  \c”
read ID
echo –e “$FIRST\t$LAST\t$ID” >> database
fi
echo –e “Would you like to search for an employee? y/n \n”
read SEARCH
if [ $SEARCH = “y” –o $SEARCH = “Y” ]
then 
echo –e “Enter the first name, last name or employee ID to search for.  \c”
read WORD
grep “$WORD” database
fi