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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How are supervisors going to explain job duties if workers can’t understand them? How are workers going to be able to ask questions if they have problems?
I give up on ever having this administration do anything proAmerican. They just need to vacate. Why is our nutless congress doing nothing. Oh wait they’re still on their 5 week vacation right?
We still live in the USA right so y the hell they don’t need to speak English
Unfortunately the U.S. doesn’t have a national language. But where I live there is this thing called employment at will, meaning you can be fired at anytime or quit at anytime for any reason. Tell them to put on their big people panties and deal with it like everyone else who loses a job does. Joan Elzey lawbreakers always have the greatest rights in this country for some reason, I think it’s to protect gov’t employees
How bout Americans sue him back they wouldn’t hire folks in az unless we spoke Spanish
What a way to waste tax payer money. If they cant speak English how do you get them to work and explain the job to be done.
Hold on in the united state the main language is English and if you come here you should learn it and it is that simple
This commie in the WH is soooo out of touch. Proof that he’s not a citizen nor does he even care about AMERICANS!!
Quit voting for democrats and they will soon be out of power. The unions elected this trash.
How about the companies that require people to speak Spanish here in the U.S.!!!???