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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My question why were they hired in the first place?
Why were they hired in the first place.
I can believe Christian people enjoyed this. How you can say you are humble and love God if he said in his word love one to another. Read the Bible what he said about you as son Or daughter of God and the foreigners, what He command to you. Well what I understand if you cant love your people how you can love others God is in your heart? Ask and evaluate your self Christians. The same people you hate is the same people who smile to you when you are in the hospital and clean your lower part of you body and clean your dirty vomit wash your restroom. One day the good Lord will ask and you will answer?you need to be thankful, because the the people you hate are who put the produce and fruits you eat at you table.May God bless and have mercy of all who hates that poor people.
If English is an important part of any positions then the hiring entity should have the right to fill those positions accordingly
Matilde Saravia why are you judging ppl.
If I move to China I’m going to learn Chinese if I move to France I’m going to learn French! But I’m an American I speak Spanish because I live in southern West states an nobody knows English because of this c**p!
Why can’t we make the them learn English
You need to learn how to write English please!!! Learn grammar to write better
You come to our country speak our language or stay home and you are just a guest. and have no civil rights here
dbi says:
“Well how in the world do they receive instructions where they will kno how to dO THE JOB correctly? Oh…oh…..wait!!! The American, ENGLISH SPEAKING boss is suppose to learn Es..span..yo!..,but hey,if whomever wants to cross over the border, get a job in America and have “freedom and power” to do what they want,even tho they are not an American citizens, I am sure they won’t mind, since they love America so much, when we need more soldiers
(And we eventually will)
to go to war and help fight the terrorists in the middle east. Think they’ll stay in America or run for the border???”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/feds-sue-american-company-for-requiring-workers-speak-english/comment-page-10/#comment-484418