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 can they do their jobs right if they can’t understand how to due the work Send them to school
How does he know what skills are needed ?
Bho has fubar’d this country !!!
Vote all the dam Democrats out of office and let us get this country working like it use to be a strong USA.
Like obooooma they are not legal in this country ,So they have no American rights.
Yes, English is required to do the job! If they can’t speak or understand English, how is their boss supposed to tell them what their job is or how to do it – – – by sign language! I bet they know enough English to ask or demand a raise! How did they fill out their application, through an interpreter? I’m sure the company never hired an interpreter to walk them through the application! Hasn’t Obama got anything better to do than this? How about tackling the Mexican government for the release of our Marine. I’m sick of having a language (other than English) posted on every sign!
They’re not forcing them to learn English. Nobody is forcing them to work there! But apparently English is a job requirement at that company, so they have motivation to learn if they “want” to work there…
F*****k the fed
Zionism wants confusion. that’s how they divide and conquer.
Bull$#%&!@*