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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Screw the Feds!!!! Mind your own fluckin business!
William your an idiot! English is the official language!
Can you say, SAFETY HAZARD, Borack?
Sadly, Perry, William is correct. The US does not have an official language. Need to establish one legally, but good luck getting that voted in!
I feel the same way !. For people to work here needs to speak English American way so they can be understood!. I found when I arrived at this Airport the biggest majority does not know how to speak English!. That is very bad in our country flying these Foreign people into USA to work take our job’s up so our children pushed aside no job !. Before. You had to speak English because it was monitory !. Obama takes over screws every thing up!.
Screw the Fed’s !.
If it’s their company and they want English speaking people that should be dare civil right
SCREW THE FEDS
SPEAK ENGLISH OR GET F OUT OF HERE
I don’t think Obama even knows ights means