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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THIS IS AMERICA AND EVERYONE HERE SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO SPEAK ENGLISH. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SPEAK ENGLISH, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
I think this headline means to say, ‘for NOT requiring workers speak English’. They should not be here, if they cannot speak English, unless they have an interpreter 24/7!!!!!
this is america and we speak and write english. obama admin. is wrong and companies alone you asses.
Why did they get hired in the first place
We need to fire our government, cancel their benifits and elect a new one who will put their employer’s wishes into practice. Oh, I forgot, they are all crooks and we can’t do a damn thing about it. Too bad.
Speak English! Damit
This junk is getting down right crazy. We need to get rid of them all and start over
Besides English being the official language of America just the safety aspect should require employees speaking English,
Shouldn’t have hired them if that was a problem.
More B S!!!!