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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The ENGLISH-SPEAKING business owners are the one’s hiring illegal immigrants for their cheap labor instead of hiring on their own legal.citizens. Greedy $#%&!@*s. If you’re gonna bitch at anyone it should be them.
ty Marllyn I agree keep ur language but learn English this is not their country its OURS you came here to be American so be one
you have to be able to talk to your workers.you should not have to learn other languages to speak with them.our family members from mexico understood that and now speak fluent english.i would suspect there is more to the issue than is reported here.
why ,this would be what we call a lack of communicatin.
OMG, there’s NO END to this C**P!!!
OSHA regulations should clear them . oh wait Holder DOJ will ignore that law in order to shove Progressive agenda up ****
How does management or Owners supervise workers who can not speak English, Isn’t English our countries primary Language. Or should they just be required to be outside our borders until they can communicate in English.
If they cannot speak English then they do not need to be here. The government needs to stay out of the work place that does not belong to them. Just another plan of Obama’s to ruin the country!
Just more $#%&!@* from our POS president.
speak American or go back to where you come from now