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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CANT SPEAK ENGLISH THEN YOUR AN INVADER OTHER WISE YOU WOULD KNOW HOW TO,NO SPECIAL TREATMENT OR YOU VIOLATE ARE RIGHTS LIKE NO ONE IS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE,JUST MORE SOCIALIST COMMIE C**P FROM THIS ADMIN
Insane
they should have to speak Thomas’ English Muffins and Bagels\\\\\\
English should be the official language of the United States of America. My ancestors had to learn English when they came here and they did gladly. I refuse to learn Spanish as I live in America. I guess I do not correspond with the Spanish speaking people.
They want to live and work in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, then they should speak our official language “English”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beau Jenkel-Oliver
Just another way obummer is doing to tear down the American way of life.
Thanks to obamas actions terrorist freely roam our land so for those working next to them it would be nice to know they arent planning on coming to work the next with weapons to kill the americans. Besides it is just plain rude to come into our house and expect us to modify our lives to fit for the most part illegal immigrants and at best rude coworkers…….
why should companies pay for English lessons…safety requires understanding English…idiots yapping before thinking
that’s bull$#%&!@*, you don’t speak the language get out