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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Here is the issue I have with this. They import illegals and foreigners based on cheap labor so the rich and CEOs/shareholders can use people. Sad!!! Speaking English is our language. We have to make sure we understand each other. What if a worker was in danger or in trouble and didn’t speak English? Then what? Think about it
Wtf
you came to OUR Country, seeking a better life than the one you LEFT BEHIND, learn our language… We will not change to accommodate your wants/needs
Obama doesn’t want to “force” them to speak English but, he will force the company to pay for their birth control. Yeah, that makes sense.
OK then let’s sue the feds for not speaking spanish in congress
all i can say to Obama. on that is bull$#%&!@*…..
obumer needs a one way ticket home
Any company that hires illegals should be boycotted and brought to light and avoided totally through its services and products. Such things we as people have done. It is also time for Unions to be formed and by Laws in said Unions enforced. We have that power we have that voice! For anyone who knows that requirements for hiring and job retaining means being a U.S. citizen and if not having the proper credentials! Now is when we need such Unions to protect ourselves our livelihoods from the tyrannical solutions that our Government is enforcing on us!!!
1978 it was voted to make english the official language of America i want to know what happened to that popular vote why it was never made law any one who works in this country must be able to effectively communicate with out requiring special accomodations
English it’s