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 support the company
thought that learning English was part of becoming a citizen what happened. My great grand parents had to learn to read, write, and speak English when they came here.
This is America. Our only
Throw those FEDS out..they are not American!
screw the feds
screw Obama and his government
A company should have the right to hire whomever they want!
LOL…Yeah but he can force us to buy his $#%&!@* health care!…lol
This Mundane Government Body in Washington Tries to Work outside of the Constitution,implementing and making up their own rules and laws as they see fit and using their scare and fear tactics to get by with them and force them on the American People.It Is Time The People Rise Up and Stand Up To Them and Remind Them They Work For Us,We Run This Country NOT Them.It Is Our Money That Pays Them And It Is Our Money They Waste.This Is America,If You Are Going To Live Here The Language Is English.Learn It or at least be willing to learn.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When is the insanity go to quit