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 WOULD BE ONE HELL OF PAY CHECK FOR SOME GOOD LAWYER. SUE THE $#%&!@* OUT OF THE FED’S.
HOW IS THAT PERSON WHO DOESN’T SPEAK OR WRITE ENGLISH COMMUNICATE WITH THE OTHER WORKERS? HOW DOES HE/SHE LEARN THE JOB? WHAT IF THEIR REQUIRED TO ANSWER THE PHONE? DO NOT TELL ME THEY WILL GET SPECIAL TREATMENT?
Wouldn’t speaking English be a “qualified requirement” to work in an American company, especially if machinery is involved ???
I think it violates MY civil rights to not be able to communicate in english with someone living in this country and living better than I do because the damned federal government is giving them things for free that I can’t afford to buy!
really….really?????
Amen I am so tired of pushing #1 for English in my own country I could SCREAM! If you can’t speak English to damn bad go find a company that speaks you language and get a job there and see how well that works for you!
screw this illegal administrationn
Wont be long till we cant speak.
I’m behind every American business that states you must speak English while on the work property. If you don’t like it then go back to your own country, we don’t need you here to begin with.
If you are in the military or a civil servant, you must speak English while on the job. So why is it different in the private sector?