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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I agree with you, but what good does our opinion count.
once again obama knows nothing about law.
Bullsh-t ! They are required to speak english .
This is so wrong. Un-American.
Rules or rules. He needs to stay out of Factory business. He doesn’t follow any of the American rules so why now the concern?
realy?–have they ever tried to work in a factory where some people just simply refuse to learn–like why we dont drink from urinals??–or why we dont c**p in wash basins–try to explain to some what all the dots and numbers on paper mean–good luck–i have been their and its the most sickening ,frustrating bunch of c**p to deal with–especialy when its for the big 3 —the feds are just as clueless i guess
How can you follow instructions on the job if you don’t speak or understand English??
It should be law
Not being abets communicate on the job could be a danger to everyone involved.
Bull $#%&!@* this is America we speak English tell Obama to go to HELL!