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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obummer will do anything that he can to destroy America
Then fire those that don’t and hire ones that speak English!
Must be Republicans who own the company
hey it is their company not the gov stick it
By God this is AMERICA and WE speak ENGLISH not spainish hebrew muslim ENGLISH if you cant speak the countries native language learn. I am going to go to mexico get a job and if they turn me down say its because I dont speak spainish
Racist administration! Be so good to see them leave!
obama needs to keep his noise out of the comp. buisness and the comp shought not have hired them in the first place
Sue, Tony you are both so right. I am just overwhelmed when our Government is involved in so many injustices. I cannot think of any other President that has done what this one has done and thinking about doing in my whole life. I am a Senior Citizen. I am not a really old oldster, but I can tell you all. There will be Nothing, note Nothing there for you or yours when you reach my age even though you have paid in each payday you worked and all was withheld from your pay, pitiful. God grant his Mercy on us all, because we are going to need it, in the next year or two.
if I was the company I would hire lawyers who only spoke spanish
if you want to live in America speak English our #1 language or you can live elsewhere if you so choose.