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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if they can’t speak English how can they become American Citizen when they apply for citizenship and repeat this constitution to become an American citizen if we speak English so should they if they don’t like it go back from when you came here this is a Free country as you can see when you get food stamps and free room and board our jobs
These folks come here, want to work, don’t want to learn to read or English yet if they have an accident at the job sight they end up suing the company for not knowing how to read normal safety rules and regulations. Then guess what, they win millions because the company didn’t train them or provide the rules and regulations in Spanish. They’ll live here for 10-40 yrs and never attempt to learn the minimal English to get by on day by day basis.
Exactly Angie Sinift…and in the workplace I would think that safety would be a concern if they couldn’t speak (verbal warning of impending danger) and read/write English (Safety Manual/Instruction)…I am in the USA, right?? This is just too much…seems like BHO is trying his best to start a racial war in this country…
These ppl are not here to Embrace this wonderful nation they are here to Exploit it…….. Plain and simple as that……
If they can’t speak English how did they become citizens who have civil rights! We have complete fools running this country, from top to bottom!
INSANITY
I hope they fight Obama a admin all the way
OBAMA needs to go NOW! He is not a true American in any sense of the word. This is disgusting!!!!
Ridiculous.
When they get hurt by not knowing how to operate machinery ,then sue the gov.