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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Sue Obama for being a fraud and thief
Huh! How about the feds going to bat for union workers and those hoping to unionize who are being harassed and bullied by their employers and employer-hired union busters!!!
Screw Obama, English only in the work place! If something went wrong how would these non-English speaking people warn their co-workers in a timely manner? This is a safety issue in the work place not a racial issue!
I hate that piece of $#%&!@* with a passion
Christopher Burgess say what? Lol
NO ENGLISH NO WORK.
Bull sh*t
COME ON, IS SMALL BUSINESS BEING RAN BY D. O. J. OR OTHER BRANCH. THIS IS OVER REACH WITHOUT QUESTION. QUOTE; GRAND PA
if they do not speak English how are they to know what to do or not to do. there is a safety issure here — wait, I am talking about the gov who do not stop and think before inserting foot in mouth
immigrant sholud speak english if they are going to live here