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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speak English, or go away.
Do you want WI Plastics from Green Bay to move to China?
bull$#%&!@*, you can’t speak the language you have no business being here unless you are on a short vacation, get out
Talk about frivolous lawsuits !
And yet Americans every day are not being considered for jobs because they don’t speak Spanish. Makes no sense. Government, get out of our lives!
This suit is full of c**p…if you live in American and have a job in America you NEED to know how to speak American,,,,,ENGLISH,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Civil rights? What about civil rights of American citizens who are being forced to employ these people?!
Thurgood I was born in this country that means it’s where I came from. You don’t hear other immigrants expecting us to learn their language so they can work here. That’s because in every non third world country in the world they teach English. That company is a factory so it’s a hazardous place to work. If you don’t understand the warning labels and cannot understand the safety rules you should not work there period. The worst part is they can totally sue the company if they get hurt on the job because they can’t speak the language.
Obama libtards
I’m sorry but um this is America… U should know English before coming to our country, Obama should mind his own job and stop worrying about what American company’s are doing… Communication is important when working with large factory equipment… So learn $#%&!@*ing English or go back to the dust u came from…