Posted on 07/02/2014 3:49:02 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing workplace discrimination laws, is suing a private American business for firing a group of Hispanic and Asian employees over their inability to speak English at work, claiming that the English-language requirement in a U.S. business constitutes “discrimination.”
Judicial Watch reported Tuesday that the government is accusing Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on “national origin.” The government argues this includes the “linguistic characteristics of a national origin group.”
Irene Garcia, the blog editor and Spanish media liaison for Judicial Watch, called the EEOC’s accusation “ludicrous.”
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Watlow Batavia was razed and is now a parking lot.
Exactly. Well said.
We need to declare English as our national language, no “oprima dos” and stop keeping these people stuck in the barrio.
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Silly American! Your proposal is based on the antiquated notion of keeping America at the forefront of innovation and prosperity. The plan that the Soros Administration has for our country is to reduce it to Third World Status, and they are working at this from many angles. A single unifying national language would be at odds with the progressives’ goals of chaos.
Yep! Divide and conquer.
I am still angry we have to press 1 for English when making calls to businesses.
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I hope you let those businesses know. I always do.
I tell them that it is fine to have other options but that, in America, the default option should be English.
After I complained a few times — very politely, BTW — they finally changed that feature on the credit card swiping device at my grocery store.
Doh!!! What was I thinking?
Spanish language skills is sometimes an requirement.
The government bureaucrat who made that determination is an imbecile. In applying any law, unelected bureaucrats are not empowered to expand the language to conform to what their opinion of what might have been intended, rather than the simple language of the actual law.
Any bureaucrat who does this should be fired immediately, for failure to develop the capacity actually to apply the law, as it exists. Or she should sue the Legislature for writing unclear laws, not simply apply her interpretation of them.
Si no eres capaz de compender claramente el Ingles mas sencillo, no mereces trabajar en ninguna capacidad donde comprension es esencial.
Necesitas encontrar el trabajo que mereces.
No vivimos en Mexico.
Absolutely.
That is an essential part of its definition.
According to a news release from the EEOC, Chicago Regional Attorney John C. Hendrickson said the Green Bay-based company’s English requirement is based on “superficial” reasoning.
“Our experience at the EEOC has been that so-called ‘English only’ rules and requirements of English fluency are often employed to make what is really discrimination appear acceptable. But superficial appearances are not fooling anyone,”
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So Hendrickson is not only an EEOC attorney, but also a mind reader?
I don’t think the US will become solely Spanish-speaking, or at least not for a very long time. It could well become bilingual: English/Spanish. The reason I said it might become polyglot is that if libs had their way employers would not be able to require anyone they hire to speak English; therefore,speakers of any language could not be discriminated against, not just Spanish speakers. and US Government publications are already being published in a number of languages other than English.
I would seriously like to learn when and how this multi-language business with government publications began, AND WHO PROPOSED IT, who wrote the bill(s) and who co-sponsored them.
Does any other country in the Western hemisphere publish hundreds of government publications in a language other than their own?
If not, why not?
Go to court.
Have a Chinese lawyer present your case in Chinese.
Wait for the Judge to say ... ENGLISH.
Case over.
It’s primarily an issue of Worker Safety. If an employee cannot read or comprehend English, things could get pretty bad.
Also, my company is heavily regulated by the FDA. They REQUIRE every employee to be able to read and understand all documentation related to their job.
We had loads of Asians who spoke little or no English. The company provided English as a Second Language classes for any employee to get up to speed in English. They had 2 years to do this. At the end of the 2 years, they were given a basic skills test - and promptly “let-go” if they didn’t pass.
Maybe a better way to put it is that Spanish will replace English as the “main” language, while others are accomodated. Haven’t you noticed the strange phenomenon recently, where on “normal” TV stations a commercial will come on completely in Spanish?
Glad you came around, comrade, so we don’t have to send you to the re-education camp — this time....
Compensation for work done.
Dear EEOC
si habla el common senso??
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As the “company” likely requires that its employees can take..DIRECTIONS from management as well.
When will the EEOC demand that Management be forced....to employ Spanish...to communicate SOME...employees?
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