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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It’s time for americans to take back control of our country
And we all know osamahamas admin has got no skills to do any job!
HEY! You dummies! We speak ENGLISH here in America as a 1st language, 2nd speak what you want.
ILLEGAL ALIENS do NOT have CIVIL RIGHTS if they came here illegally and need to learn ENGLISH if they plan on coming thru LEGALLY dipsticks
How can they do their jobs if they don’t understand or speak English
I was denied a job once in Del Rio, TX because I didn’t speak Spanish.
Also, why do we have Spanish written drivers test when EVERY road sign, traffic warning, and alerts are all in English.
this is an English speaking country if we go to other countries we need to be able to speak their languages its only fair
learn it speak it and then complain…. until then shut the f up , it english only
Lol if i called a company and got an individual tgat didnt speak english id be upset. Its not customer centric whatsoever