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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I live in Wisconsin. And yes we have a lot of illegals. I’m not going to state my views on that. Yet I heard nothing in local or state news about this. And why the heck did it get to obama? It’s not his concern.
Obama needs to be in prison !!!
Hmm , looks like the Obama administration is filled with Morons ! But then most of us knew that already
This is America! We speak English! Wisconsin Plastics can do whatever they please. Only Nobama & his scummy team would make them spend their money & ours incidentally, on such a political law suit.
You have to be kidding
this is america we speak english. that’s it WORKING ILLEGALS IS A CRIME. CLOSE THEM DOWN
California Companies and Civil Orgs. require Spanish…. how is that not against the law and how are they able to fire 10-20 yr employees for not going to school to learn it or just firing them because they don’t know it already? the damned Liberals want it both ways as usual.
I lived in WI and my family still does and that is a state everyone should be expected to know English in, its a mainly white/black state so its obvious why Obama wants to push his anti-native agenda here.
they should counter sue ohblahblah the official language in America is English and has and will always be also they should challenge his law at companies hiring illegal criminals in this country their criminals and should be deported i’s even unfair to the legal aliens who came here legally it’s time we shut him down period
Ok I’m going to say this one more time. THEIR business is THEIR business . They can hire or fire anyone they want to. If you can’t speak English in America than LEARN TO. I know if I went to a foreign country I would never expect a country to change their language to suit me! This is BS.