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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We are AMERICANS and we speak ENGLISH if you don’t go home.
We need to sue the feds for being un-American and traitors !!
Bullsh*t.
If they come to AMERICA they need to learn ENGLISH!!!!!!!! If they don’t want to learn then go back home! What part of ” THIS IS AMERICA WE SPEAK ENGLISH ” don’t you understand ???????????
They should be required to speak English. This need to put in our Constitution as our official language.
Stop hiring them, When they get real hungry they will go home.
if you can’t speak English you cant communicate which mean you can’t perform your job properly!!!!
Why is Feds who are paid by The People suing Americans??? What rights do illegals have in our Country ??? NONE
who ARE THESE FEDS… (government employees) that are sueing the public… their employers?
If you can’t read or speak English how are you going to do your job the right way and the safe way?