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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Obama is an ignorant fool who is not even close to being qualified to be president of this country. He wouldn’t even be qualified to sweep the streets.
This shows just how bad our country is coming apart.
dont hire them if they cant or wont speak english
You have to be kidding ! If you want to live in America you should know how to speak English .
they should speak our english if they want to be in this country
Next step: they must interpreters so they can speak with union organizers.
they should speak english
Joke
Screw Obama and his fascist government. Tell him to go back to Kenya and take his administration and family with him.
Well if they don’t speak English , how do they know what the teacher is saying??? Also if they don’t speak English, they could be threating us and just how would we know this??? Speak English or leave. we should not be losing our jobs for these illegal immigrants.