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 C**P
You can shove it Muslim Obama , English or nothing ! So if they cant speak it or read it Why do you LET them Drive and Kill Americans
anyone read why? http://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/6-9-14.cfm
In case he’s forgotten, this is our country not theirs, speak English or go back across the border and stay there!!!
This is so rediculous!
Why am I not surprised? Our Chinese borrowed money at work
They need to speak and understand English or they put themselves or others in danger !!
this is BS
Ironically, the non-English speaking employees would sue the company, if they were hurt on the job because they couldn’t read or understand instructions and safety rules. Stupid!!
But there are some jobs where you are required to speak Spanish to work at!!! WTH is up with that??? We need have the same rules as Russia for living in this country!