Posted on 12/11/2016 12:00:17 PM PST by jazusamo
Under new rules put forth by the Obama administration, it’s now considered discriminatory for companies in the U.S. to require that employees speak English, but it’s OK to require that workers speak a foreign language.
The new enforcement guideline is meant to crack down on “national origin discrimination” in the workplace, because according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the American workforce is “increasingly ethnically diverse.”
“The increased cultural diversity of today’s workplaces presents new and evolving issues with respect to Title VII’s protection against national origin discrimination,” the EEOC writes. “This enforcement guidance will assist EEOC staff in their investigation of national origin discrimination charges and provide information for applicants, employees, and employers to understand their respective rights and responsibilities under Title VII.”
So how did this rule come about? Judicial Watch breaks it down:
Two years ago, the administration laid the foundation for the new measures by suing a private American business for discriminating against Hispanic and Asian employees because they didn’t speak English on the job. The case involved a Green Bay Wisconsin metal and plastic manufacturer that fired a group of Hmong and Hispanic workers over their English skills. Forcing employees to speak English in the U.S. violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEOC claimed in its lawsuit. That’s because the Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination based on national origin, which includes the linguistic characteristics of a national origin group. Therefore, the EEOC argued, foreigners have the right to speak their native language even during work hours at an American company that requires English.
Also included in the rules are new discrimination categories such as using Social Security requirements to screen applicants and relying on “word-of-mouth recruiting,” which the EEOC states could “magnify existing ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity in a workplace and result in the exclusion of qualified applicants from different national origin groups.”
According to Judicial Watch, the enforcement guidelines are another example of the Obama administration “strong-arm[ing] businesses and government agencies into adopting [their] leftist agenda and inflated standards of political correctness.”
Hussein, like his daddy, hates English speaking white people. And like his mommy Stanley, loves Marxist-socialism. Hussein is an anti-American mole that deserves GTMO.
NO!! FORCING AMERICANS TO LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE IS DISCRIMINATORY!!!! Gosh it pisses me off...I REFUSE to learn Spanish in order to cater to illegals!! My son has been passed up in jobs because he doesn’t speak Spanish!!!! Ugh!!! NOW THAT’S DISCRIMINATORY!!
“Can’t” stand each other...oops.
LOL! Those people in India call centers may think they’re speaking English but I tend to disagree. :)
Some times speaking English is a SAFETY issue you ignorant Kenyan.
If this is a new EO take it out.
It is time to make English our official / National language.
These are adminstration rules which Trump can gut in a heartbeat.
Once businesses & employers have Trump on their side, the federal bureaucracy will start to see s*** running uphill for a change.
Defiant heads of federal agencies will be confronted on Capitol Hill knowing the White House no longer has their back.
“Do you want us to f*** with your budget!?” will be the implied message.
The dolt in the White House hasn’t yet discovered that he’s now utterly irrelevant.
Couldn’t agree more. In my view it’s hard if not impossible to bring people together if they don’t even speak the same language.
You can't make this stuff up!!! And here I thought it couldn't get worst. The people making these rules are enemies of the USA.
Hey, if Mr. Pres__ent can be illiterate, why not all the other employees in the nation?
Sorry Mr. _resident, there’s a new man in town, and he knows his ass from a hole in the ground.
English is the language of business. Anyone that thinks that knowing Laotian or Urdu will get them a great job is going to be sadly disappointed.
It is going to take some time to undo 8 years of Obamanation.
Time left until Obama leaves office: 39 days, 08 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds
Great. Now every company will have to hire a translator for every non english speaker, or even one who just refuses to speak English. What about “translingual” speakers? Will it be illegal to NOT support someone who makes up their own language? Obama is in full wrecking ball mode. He wants to do as much damage as possible. He wants revenge. He will unleash every federal agency to destroy Trump before he’s even sworn in.
Well said. Exactly right! And we all look forward to 2:00 PM on January 20th.
They keep calling me, telling me my windows are dirty. I want to know how they can tell that all the way from Bombay ?
That’s getting down to a science. :) I know all here at FR can’t wait for that time to pass.
We sure are...
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