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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this is AMERICA… speak ENGLISH or go home
If they don’t want to speak English then send them bac to were ever the hell they came from
If they don’t speak our language, they are probably illigals too – – send them back where they came from – – when my grand parents came to this country, they said we are becoming Americans – we will speak the language – -but they didn’t teach the kids (11 of them) the Norske customs either, which I think was a mistake – –
The government under Muslim Obama and his idiot clones has gone completely crazy.
THIS IS STILL AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE TELL OBAMA TO KISS YOUR ASS,IF THEY CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH FIRE THEM.
Sue them back!!!
Then so is requiring workers to be able to stand upright and lift 50lbs over their heads…
Work may require physical demands, it may also require the ability to communicate.
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.
in bratislava i was cardiologist…
If you’re in America, speak English. We are AMRICA