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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they should speak English thet have to know what to do to be safe with the job
Im hispanic and obama is a $#%&!@*ing dumbass! Keep your language but if you come here, america, learn english mother$#%&!@*ers! This whole immigration thing is so $#%&!@*ing stupid!
This is America not Mexico, speak Engkish
America equal English get it
how did they get the job if they cant read or speak english in the first place
ANOTHER STUPOD MOVE.
Another example of our freedoms being taken away. If I own a company and only want to hire people that speak Lithuanian, that’s MY business and not the damn governments.
what about our damn civil rights
hey Obama you violate our rights every day …so that is calling the kettle black don’t you think…get out of corporate ind. you don’t even belong there. or in our country for that matter
SUE HIM BACK..PROTECT OUR RIGHTS