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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Stand Up Wisconsin,To Be An American Citizen you Need to speak English.Stop Giving this Government Our Rights.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARREST OBAMA
Obummer is the one that ought to be fired and then ARRESTED!
WHY IS obama STICKING HIS NOSE IN THEIR BUSINESS? IF YOUR LIVING IN AMERICA SPEAK ENGLISH. YOU GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE THEIR LANGUAGE FOR YOU.
Obama stick it up your ass. Our language is English, if you don’t like it leave.
I agree this their company.
Obama administration? Shouldn’t they keep their nose out of things that don’t concern them and start looking to protecting us from terrorists inside OUR country?
If they are unable to speak or understand english HOW are they supposed to know what they are supposed to do ? Also how many languages can obama speak or understand????
If you don’t speak English, then you are not American. If you are not a citizen of this Country, you need to go home. Shame on the companies who hire them, you know it is against the law. You should be fined and shut down.
It will mean I will buy more of their products . Good for Wisconsin Plastics!!