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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Every job needs communication sklills of some kind. People can get injured and how do you know if they understand what they are supposed to do if they can’t communicate with others.?
How can the boss communicate instructions to them? This is just insane
This is WRONG! LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH!!!
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…Truth and Action stop deleting my post. I only speak the Truth.
Truth and Action won’t allow me to post certain things…haha because you know I’m $#%&!@*ing RIGHT.
Obama want to ban plastic from America, that’s stupid planning. Every thing are made from Plastic these days, the Automotive car bodies to a zip lock plastic baggies.
oh, give me a break, speak English or LEAVE.
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…Truth and Action stop deleting my post. I only speak the Truth.
You must communicate to do work…if you can’t communicate. you can’t do meaningful work. And NO company should have to provide interpreters! There are 5000+ languages in this world! One way to make sure there is NO business functioning in America is to rule employees don’t have to speak English! This is Obama’s goal all along!
Ridiculous! !