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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Eric the racist piece of $#%&!@* holder. Need I say more.
There are no “Civil Rights” if one is not a citizen. One might argue some perversion of human rights, but certainly not civil rights. One might argue courtesy, or “learning to get along,” but NOT civil rights. Learn the difference in terminology … it’s like the “uniformed” who may think discrimination against Irish or Italians in the 1800s, or Latinos today, is “racist.” It’s not! It’s “ethnic.” The are three races in the world — Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid (often also called Asian). Ethnic groups are all subsets of the Big 3.
This kind of depends on what the qualifications were when they were hired. If being able to speak English is a job requirement, then if you can’t speak it, you should not be hired. If you are hired , then you should be trained to speak English if that is a job requirement. It is not a civil rights violation by any means.
It probably cost more to keep translating, than to hire someone that speaks english.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM SOME ONE FROM “KENYA, HE’S JUST STUPID ABOUT THE LAW.
This is RIDICULOUS.
I’m really felling the love from these crazies.
if you can
What ever happened to our immigration laws that required those coming here to learn English and have a job to go too or have a sponsor.? The liberal commies must have changed the law so more of the ignorant would vote for democrats.
What is so hard about to learn English. I learned from the TV and News Papers. If the don’t like to learn English the need to get the Hell out of our Country. This is America where English is Number ONE.