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! ENGLISH is our language!! learn to speak it or go back where you came from!!! 🙁
There you go, now he’s getting too personal. He’s never run a company, how’s he gonna run a country?????
just one more frivilous lawsuit that us taxpayers will be footing the bill for. you can’t fix stupid
he’s such an ass, impeach this bastard
i am a contractor and i used to hire a couple guys who spoke no English and it is really hard makes the job last a lot longer for i have to show them how do do things for they dont understand so yes they have to speak english
This is America, if they want to live and work here, they’d damn well better learn the $#%&!@*in’ language because I’m damn sure not going to learn theirs. If they want to speak their native tongue, let them go the $#%&!@* home!
You can’t become a citizen if you can’t speak, read, and write English. As an employer, you are suppose to file I 9 verifying citizenship.
How in the hell do you give instructions of how to do the job, if the Illegals cant understand you, Hope you Liberals who elected the bastard like it.
when instructions for work are in English, dont you have to be able to read them?
Yes,those skills ARE needed!