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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English speak it
Like this administration knows ANYTHING about manufacturing………….what ass holes.
LMFAO!!!
Why were they hired?
This administration warps everything to suit their own agenda (which as we all know is to destroy our great country). Of course anyone has the right to speak whatever language they want while in our country, but if you want gainful employment it’s completely logical and reasonable to expect your employees to speak English if they’re working in a country that has English as it’s language……I would not expect a foreign country to accommodate me for not speaking their language any more than I’d expect this administration to do what’s right for our country. #ImpeachObamaNow
well,maybe English is not needed to perform theirs duties,but to understand what this duties is ,they absolutely have to understand the language , and owner ,by the same law ,does not have to learn theirs ,he simply will find somebody who do and who (by mistake) will not cut their head off because he’/she could not read warning sign
how about just hire Americans that speak English that are naturalize documented American citizens why not do that . how about we rebuild America from the inside out and stop anyone who waylays that process in any way or mean to defraud or scam or tax evade ??? how would that be ?? Sue this while your @ it ojackass !
Part of the LAW of Immagration is to be able to speak ENGLISH!! Guess these Politicians must not know HOW to read it or speak it and OBLABER is a Blabering, lieing Idiot that some village in Kenya lost!!
Federal gov’t overreach
good can’t stand people that come to live here,for yrs and don’t speak OUR LANGUAGE.OR when you come into a room they start talking in their native language that’s ok ,i p**s them off ,i talk in english the when i see them ,i just talk babble.they have no idea what im talking about …either do i lol but they don’t like it.lol try it it’s a pisser.