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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They take are jobs they should speak English Wake up people
it is discrimination to expect American citizens to speak another language not English
fiction343 says:
“The United States of America has no official language.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/feds-sue-american-company-for-requiring-workers-speak-english/comment-page-2/#comment-328539
Companies have been able to fire you if they didn’t like your eyebrow for years – hello this is an English speaking country – seems like customers would be speaking English
Not speaking English is a violation of civil rights? What happened to our freedom to organize and protest? It’s restricted and practically illegal. ASS BACKWARDS
Bull$#%&!@* plain and simple…
That is a line of bull $#%&!@* , ever since there were imagrants they had to learn to speek english and be able to take the oath in english, so forgert it dummys
All liberal idiots need to be purged from any position of power. Period.
If they can’t speak English, they are not true Americans. “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. BUT this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American, not a latino-American, or an Afro-American. No dual allegiances. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people!”…. Teddy Roosevelt
If they want to live learn the speak the language.