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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tar and feather those idiots
The federal government does not have the power to force a standard of language. That means the states and private entities do.
apparently he never read about the immigration laws, to assimilate into our ENGLISH SPEAKING Country!
Obama and Holder do all they can to screw up things in this country, why aren’t they going after companies however small, that require workers to speak Spanish? We see more and more from the administration efforts to destroy the fabric of America.
What happened to OCEA requirements that English must be spoken, read and understood relating to safety issues. English is our American language and I assume these people wanted to come to the US to become citizens and to communicate with the ‘man on the street’. No one has asked them to give up their own language.
Maybe I ought to sue my 5th grade teacher for telling me to speak English only that racist bitch’s.
LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH BUT BETTER YET, SEND THEM HOME!!!
You want to live in the United States, then you should speak ENGLISH!!!!!
NO Too late . Who filled out the paper work . A FRIEND .
Hualapaitiger says:
“So you tell them if you do this you will probably be killed, and if they don’t understand you…”
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