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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the company is in the right.
the company is right! if your here in america working at an american company you need to be able to speak $#%&!@*ing english
Ok so since when did these $#%&!@*s care about rights
Why Pay someone that can’t Speak English, and can’t do the Job? How Dumb is that?
I DON’T KNOW THOSE PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO SPEAK ENGLISH ARE STILL HERE, THATS THE REASON I WONT GO TO OUR LOCAL WALMART, CAN’T FIND ANYONE THAT SPEAKS ENGLISH, RATHER GO TO PUBLIX, AT LEAST YOU CAN TALK TO PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING AGAINST PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IN THERE NATIVE LANGUAGE, BUT YOU ALSO SHOULD SPEAK, WRITE AND READ ENGLISH. !!!!!! THIS IS AMERICA FOLLOW OUR LAWS
this is America speak the language.
Horse$#%&!@*!
IF THERE LIVE HERE THERE SHOULD SPEAK ENGLISH THERE DONT SPEAK ENGLISH IN MEXICO FOR US ONLY IN THE RESORTS OUR PRESIDENT WANTS TO SUE EVERY ONE HOPE THERE FIGHT BACK IS GETTING A LITTLE OUT OF HAND WITH ALL THESE RULES AND STICKING UP FOR ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE EXEPT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS VERY SAD
Maybe they could work in the Oval Office, computer work, answering letters and serving Michelle and the kids!
You are all hypocrites; guaranteed your ancestries could hardly speak english. Yet none of you can speak any native American languages from the region you hail from because we just eradicated them…. Clearly their kids go to school and learn English. Your family once a pond a time had to do the same. So I don’t see the problem because we do not have an official language.