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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His ticket home should be in a box after he hangs for treason. Stop the bad DNA
America
Why did they hire them. To begin with?
This is United States English is the official language why do we have to comply to somebody else
The United States of America has no official language.
The Obama administration is the last entity to talk about civil rights as it abuses them every day!
What the hell. If you can’t speak English then you don’t belong in this country.
Kick their butts back to where they came from
fire Obama
They are in America, so why wouldn’t a employer expect them to speak English, I was told that there is a Bank in California that requires you to speak Spanish in order to work there, Right now I see this issue as reverse discrimination by the government!!! This is an English speaking country stop trying to change it, Hispanics are not the only ones in this country so do we start making exceptions for all legals or illegals I think not it would get awfully confusing, if you chose to come to this country then English should be the language you learn to speak!!!
Once again the Obama Admin. is wrong. http://civil.laws.com/civil-rights-act-of-1964 . There is nowhere in the civil rights act of 1964 that addresses what languages can or cannot be required in a workplace. Besides, This is AMERICA. ENGLISH is our language. Learn it!