Wisconsin Plastics from Green Bay, Wis. is being sued by the Obama admin for firing workers who couldn’t speak English, stating “those skills were not needed to perform their jobs.”
The Obama admin also states that forcing people to speak English in the United States violates their civil rights, according to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Here’s the twisted explanation from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws; the Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination based on national origin, which includes the linguistic characteristics of a national origin group. Therefore, according to this reasoning, foreigners have the right to speak their native language even during work hours at an American company that requires English.
Requirements of English fluency and so-called English only rules are often implemented to make what is really discrimination appear acceptable, says the government attorney handling this case. “But superficial appearances are not fooling anyone,” he assures. “When speaking English fluently is not, in fact, required for the safe and effective performance of a job, nor for the successful operation of the employer’s business, requiring employees to be fluent in English usually constitutes employment discrimination on the basis of national origin — and thus violates federal law.”
Under President Obama the EEOC has taken a number of unprecedented actions to protect foreigners in the workplace, including illegal immigrants. In 2009 the agency issued a controversial order making a workplace English rule illegal. The directive came after the EEOC bullied a national healthcare firm to pay nearly half a million dollars to settle a discrimination lawsuit in which the government alleged that Hispanic workers were punished for speaking Spanish.
Source: judicialwatch.org
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If you want to come to America, then learn to speak english!!!!! If you do not like it, then LEAVE USA now!!!!
I’m chill with humans from every continent, but even I know if I move to Paris I better learn $#%&!@*in French
If inability to speak English is so tied to national origin, then why do the millions of ethnic Scandinavians, for example, all Speak English?
oh but if they to speak Islamic that would be better for Obama, if you in this country it is required to speak English period
The people that can’t speak English are not needed
That’s what Happens when you have an Idiot for a President……..
oh shut up rancid oreo !! he doesn’t know anymore what to do or what to say to remind the world, oh wow he is the pretzel, I mean the president of the muslim b’hood !!
after Obama gets the number of terrorists he needs through the Mexico border, he will kill the Mexicans too
Bull. If you want to live in the USA. You need to learn the language.
go read the koran and leave these people alone