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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$#%&!@*ing Feds !
I think we should take out ALL the damn ILLEGALS !
IT IS ACTUALLY AN ARMY REGULATION THAT YOU SPEAK ENGLISH ON DUTY….
This is America,,,,, you will have to speak ENGLISH —- $#%&!@* OBAMA!!!!!
I hope they fight to the bitter end this is still America
So what is business supposed to do hire an interpreter for each different language spoken what a freaking insane government. But however I believe there is method in his madness as he seeks to destroy the United States of America and a freaking imbecilic American people who are letting him do it.A country I once loved is now the universal garbage can of the world.
How can the president sue someone? That is obnoxious.
There is most likely more to this. But lately racism is a hot topic.
Okay, let them file their complaint in the language they speak , and draft it like that to the courts. See who is in the right.
Since when do illegals have civil rights? Undocumented is a nice clean little word but a duck is still a duck!