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 thought long long ago the US Government voted on making English the language and not German.. oh but since it was a Government vote it doesn’t count?
ovomit needs to be STOPPED NOW!
TAKE THIS TO THE SUPREME’S PRAY THEY GET IT RIGHT!
What about my rights they (federal government) keep violating???
That’s way more important than trying to keep Burger king in America paying taxes?
This isn’t right!!
Bull ………… this is America! First … go home & leave the US; secondly, when in America you speak ENGLISH!
Oh come on………… if they can’t speak English then how can they understand how to do their job. Get Real
Another brave act by the feeble administration ? How many languages do you speak Obama? If it is the company’s desire and policy then when does the admin. To go into a company and I force your wishes is just another one of the take over of the country. If you go to another country and apply for a job do you think you will be hired if you didn’t speak their language? Get a life people and stop this unthinkable action on the part of this admin. GD
LOOKS LIKE OBAMA LOVES EVERY COUNTRY BUT AMERICA!! HE ACTS LIKE HE WANTS OUR COUNTRY TO FAIL, BE WEAK, AND DEFENSELESS!! OUR BORDERS ARE NOT EVEN SECURED FOR GODS SAKE !!!!! I THINK AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP, IMPEACH OBAMA, SECURE OUR BORDERS, SECURE OUR AIRWAYS, PREPARE ALL AMERICANS TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THEMSELVES , AND WE SHOULD ALL STAND UNITED !!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!! GET PREPARED AND STAND UNITED!!! AMEN!!!