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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THE COMPANY IS CORRECT , THIS IS AN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY, AND THEREFORE YOU NEED TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE , NOT ONLY TO SPEAK BUT READ AND WRITE, IN CASE THERE IS AND ACCIDENT IN THE PLANT. HOW EVER THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE AN ACCIDENT SURE KNOW HOW TO SUE , AND THAN GET ON WELFARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I MYSELF WILL NOT HAVE HOUSE MAID THAT DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH OR A GARDENER, AND I RTEFUSE TO LEARN TO SPEAK SPANISH. THERE ARE TOOOOO MANY LATINOS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE USA 30YRS OR BETTER THAT STILL DONOT SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, BUT YET THEY RECIEVE ALL THE BENIFITS THAT WE AS USA CITENZENS HAVE WORKED FOR AND CANNOT GET. SHAME ON THE FEDS.
Must speak Spanish is a requirement for a lot of jobs. Should we sue the Feds for requiring that we speak Spanish to get a job.
Oh bull$#%&!@* you have to learn English to be an American citizen
Speak ENGLISH or get completely out of our country!!! b.HUSSEIN o. is a tyrannical jackass that helps everyone BUT Americans!!! STAND TOGETHER FOR AMERICA and put HUSSEIN THE TERRIBLE IN PRISON WHERE HE BELONGS!!!!
Want to bet it is a violation, liars?
I certainly support their move. We have all these people from different parts of world who do not speak or read or write English and until they learn it I would not hire them for my comany.
And people get fired every day for not speaking Spanish…even teachers who are near retirement! It’s ridiculous!!! I personally know some this happened to & it’s awful!!
I do not agree,,,,How dose one communicate if you cant speak ENGLISH ,you are off base here. if they cant speak English, thenthey don’t belong here ,end of story.
English is a language other countries mandate their citizens know and can speak. This is America and I will not bow down to such Communist garbage. I’m sorry, but English has been our language for a long ,long, long time.
Another reason to fire the current administration! No common sense,just be politically correct which is utterly asinine.In today’s workplace we all need to be speaking a common language to one another! What is the #1 problem in dealing with people? It is lack of communication! English is the common language here! Always has been and always will be! Hey folks it is called assimilating,working together for the common good! Not trying to see how difficult we can make it by each of us being confused about what’s being said!