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.”
Awwwww, stfu piece of chit obama.
So is asking them to pass a drug test. What’s yer point, Barky?
, 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.
Go to Southern California... English is a foreign language there
Ridiculous
Wow - just Wow! In other words, you cannot use your network of colleagues and friends to land a job - I wonder what the CEO (and Obama cheerleader) of LinkedIn thinks of this? The depth of their meddling is insane and so un-American, words cannot describe.
We left So CA and are never going back. :)
This is because bammy doesn’t think there should be one country, united by language. Besides, he hates the dominant culture, which is English-speaking.
Try this in any other country and see what happens.
What I would like to see from President Trump is a declaration that within 2- 4 years the government will return to recognizing English as our language of business. Subsequently there will be no more printing or translating for select groups. So, everyone has three years to learn the basics of the language we use in all services and laws or make arrangements to hire your own interpreter.
BTW- I've always wondered why select groups spending tons of lobby money to talk our legislators into doing business in their language didn't serve their constituents by doing it themselves. (and why our spineless legislators caved in to them)
Obama, Divider in Chief
People working in India call centers are required to speak English.
So if there is an emergency on the job site, it’s not a problem if people can’t communicate effectively with each other?
“What I would like to see from President Trump is a declaration that within 2- 4 years the government will return to recognizing English as our language of business. Subsequently there will be no more printing or translating for select groups. So, everyone has three years to learn the basics of the language we use in all services and laws or make arrangements to hire your own interpreter.”
+1
We fled SoCal in 2015 for E Tennessee. Best thing we ever did. No question.
We got out just in time. Now you apparently need a background check to buy ammo.
This will change in 41 days.
Speaking in Arabic will help enable their Jihad/Sharia goals as we wont be able to tell what method to kill us white people and cops off they are plotting next to fullfill Obamas goals of hope and change
Balkanizer-In-Chief.
Agreed...The wife and I mention that often, all kinds of paperwork have multiple languages more and more now.
This linguistic attack must be brought to a quick end. And, this a fluent bilingual telling you this, based on history and factual documentation of what happens to nations divided by language. Obama must be prosecuted for treason at some point in his life.
Quebec and the rest of Canada simply can stand each other over a conflict of English and French, along with the Protestant and catholic issue. Why make it worse than that? Foolish.
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