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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SPEAK ENGLISH.
Speak the language or go back where you came from.
SPEAK ENGLISH if you want to work here. The company is only applying AMERICAN principles!
That’s why bilingual or multilingual speaking people have a better chance of getting hired and sometimes even get paid more. Because of the wide variety of NON ENGLISH speaking immigrants we have in this country. I’ve met plenty of people from other countries who are here LEGALLY and still can’t $#%&!@*in speak clear English or understand it.
HE FULL OF IT WE LIVE HERE THEY NEED TO LEARN ENGLISH OR LANGUAGE
I have worked with ilegals that couldnt speak english, it is a nightmare. They are mostly worthless.Obumer and the feds need to pack it up and get out of the country before the Patriots raise up and arrest them for treason. The penalty for treason is the firing squad!!!!!
Stop $#%&!@*in bitching White Man.
everyone here should speak english
I am so sick and tired of this PC BS!
They should speak English.