By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--July 3, 2014
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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.
She cited numerous cases in which the EEOC has accused businesses of discriminating by requiring workers to speak English, running background and criminal checks, and enforcing company-wide restrictions on head coverings, including those worn by some Muslim women. “We’ve seen some decisions that are kind of radical that we haven’t seen in the past, under Republican or Democrat administrations,” she said, claiming the EEOC under the Obama administration is “on a roll.”Lest you think the alleged "victims" in this case were just having trouble with their accents or a bit of arcane vocabulary, Garcia says they “were not able to speak English at any kind of level that would be considered proficient.”
“In this case some English is necessary to communicate with supervisors and stuff like that, and the EEOC just went after this private company because some employees were being marked down for not having English skills. So that doesn’t really make sense,” she said.God forbid that employees are able to speak English fluently, or that the people signing their checks run a criminal background check. If you work at a business that requires you to be a non-criminal English speaker, you're apparently being discriminated against. Welcome to the fundamentally transformed America, enjoy your new status as a victim!. Hopefully this will be the foundation of Obama's next Supreme Court smackdown.
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