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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That is bull$#%&!@*. Then we need for Congress to null and void this garbage. We are a english speaking country. If you want to do business here then speak english dagnabit.
In some jobs it could be a life or death situation. plus if you are here in the U.S. you should be speaking English.Take America as she is or leave, don’t be trying to change it or our language.Learn English if you want to live here.
That’s not violation anything
what about not getting a job for not speaking Spanish
Why won’t DC stay out of our lives. The constitution says states rights trump federal control. Write your reps and demand that they exercise states rights. Demand our reps to impeach this bogus pres before we lose our nation to heathens!
OBAMA’S COMMIES ARE TAKING OVER….TIME TO REMOVE OBAMA FROM OFFICE….
So A Bunch of Wet Backs Can’t Speak English?? WTF How are They Going to Read Safety Instructions??
Turn All of Em Into That Plastic You Make.
The Federal Government is so out of control, vote Republican in November and put a stop to it.
As if there is something wrong with the language Americans have traditionally spoken since the days of the colonies.