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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It’s OUR LANGUAGE!! IF YOU CAN’T SPEAK IT, LEARN OR STFU!!
this is nuts we live were ?
They take your jobs? You took OUR land. Yup, still playing that card. This country was built by $#%&!@*in immigrants. I agree immigrants should learn english if they come to America but don’t forget we have illega aliens coming from all over the world. Not just Latinos/Hispanics.
How could they be trained to do their jobs ?
That’s the law , don’t like it move to the country that speaks your own language plain and simple GOD BLESS THE USA
English is the American language. When you come to my Country you speck English or stay out.
I worked for 10 years with people who couldn’t speak english & they couldn’t read instructions & had to keep asking us what it said & stopping us from doing our job,they took off every summer to go back to Pureto Rico & they would tell us to learn their language to talk to them “my answer was,”when I go to your country iI will learn your l;anguage,your in my country you learn mine.
And as for your jobs being “taken”. You can thank the ENGLISH SPEAKING business owners who rather hire illegals and pay them $#%&!@* then to hire their own legal citizens because they’re greedy.$#%&!@*s.
Fire them !! English in AMERICA !!!!!
My last job was managing apartments. One day a Mexican woman came to rent a apartment She filled out the application in Spanish which I nether read write nor speak. Well I showed her the door. She ended up filing a discrimination suit against me. My defense was,she can’t speak English and I don’t speak Spanish if some thing go’s wrong in her apartment she can’t tell me. The judge throw the case out.