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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Time to dump the fed gov ..
Don’t hire them in the first place.
Why would we want a President that wants us to give jobs to these people when he can’t provide jobs of US Citizens. Get these stupid democrats out of office.
Since when do illegal aliens have civil rights?
crazy, totally
wtf it’s America If I move to another country illegally might I add,, I don’t expect them all to start speaking my language because of me Obama administration is a joke anyway an so is he
Intentional destruction of our way of life
The feds need to be sued that is the American language and that is the language they need to learn the feds are out to lunch due to this administration and if you don’t like the fact American companies impose this on you then go to $#%&!@* home ware ever that might be from what ever rock you crawled out from under and tell the feds $#%&!@*OFF
In all the other countries entering thier countries and working there,it is required that you speak that country language I looked up some other countries requirements.So they speak english or go back home this is USA not MX
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