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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FEDs are stupid. OF COURSE the workers have to speak English if the OWNER or Bosses need to be able to communicate to the workers. Nobody can trust an interpreter to give the proper inflections and meanings of anything that is said to an ignorant worker that the boss needs to communicate. Just counter-Sue the Government! OR drag them out of their offices and throw them into the street –come election time. Just because dirty Harry owns the voting machines does NOT mean he can always win the elections. Honestly, its ALL dirty Harry’s fault. HE is the wall between the Congress and zero. He’s old. Maybe he will die soon and we will all be saved. One can only pray…
Oh when someone says watch out or move or your going to get hurt. Maybe they will wished they knew English
How were they hired?
Some jobs you can’t get if you don’t speak spanish ! Double standard ?
the feds are $#%&!@*s like the president,you have to understand each in case their is a fire ir some type of danger to notife everyone and in order to do that you all have to speak the same language
Sounds like title VII should be rewritten. If they want and enjoy our better way of life they should at least honor our language.
This is wrong they should speak english
If they don’t speak English how do you teach them to do the work? I guess the company will be mandated by the Feds to provide for Bilingual instructors.
You need to speak ENGLISH in AMERICA or get the HELL out!!!!!
WHAT?!?!?