Pelosi, Democrats Don’t Think Employers Should Require That Employees Speak English

Because that would be discrimination:

…House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican from Tennessee, is dumbstruck that legislation he views as simple common sense would be blocked. He noted that the full Senate passed his amendment to shield the Salvation Army by 75-19 last month, and the House followed suit with a 218-186 vote just this month. “I cannot imagine that the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act intended to say that it’s discrimination for a shoe shop owner to say to his or her employee, ‘I want you to be able to speak America’s common language on the job,’ ” he told the Senate last Thursday.
But that’s exactly what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is trying to do. In March the EEOC sued the Salvation Army because its thrift store in Framingham, Mass., required its employees to speak English on the job. The requirement was clearly posted and employees were given a year to learn the language. The EEOC claimed the store had fired two Hispanic employees for continuing to speak Spanish on the job. It said that the firings violated the law because the English-only policy was not “relevant” to job performance or safety.

Maybe having employees who speak Spanish only would be ok in places like California or New York, but let’s remember that the whole country isn’t like California or New York. In places like Minnesota or North Dakota, everyone speaks English. So having an employee who can’t speak English isn’t going to be much of an asset to an employer who needs that employee to be able to communicate with customers and other employees.
But if the Democrats and the EEOC gets their way, employers won’t be able to fire (or even refuse to hire) people who can’t speak English even if speaking English is a necessary part of the job.

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  • http://Array robert108

    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers…

    Only if they’re already here, having invaded the country through a porous border. It’s not so cost-effective if the employers have to pay the expense of importing, housing and feeding them.

  • Neiman

    If because of a language you are unable to communicate that a safety hazard exists or they are unable to tell you about a safety hazard, doesn’t that qualify as being relevant to job safety?

    Why in the hell do Democrats oppose requiring some degree of proficiency in the English language before citizenship or as a requirement to work in our English speaking country? I don’t get it!

  • Anthony

    It said that the firings violated the law because the English-only policy was not “relevant” to job performance or safety.

    If the boss makes english a requirement of the job, then it is relevant to job performance and safety. Another attempt to ram the illegals down our throats.

    Jeugenen:

    If you took your comment and expanded it some it would make a descent blog.

  • Jeugenen

    ANTHONY – “AMNESTY CONSIDERATION”

    Do expand it, as you suggest, to make it into a decent blog.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    This is why the “Civil Rights” Act was terrible.

    *waits for the squealing lefties to quiet down their accusations of racism, sexism, and other isms*

    “Civil rights” are whatever you say they are. Feel like you’ve been discriminated against unfairly? Just say that your “civil rights” have been violated and then step aside as the waves of Democrat and media supporters run with it.

    No thinking or reason required. All that is needed is feelings – nothing more than feelings.

  • robert108

    It’s not OK to not be able to speak English in California or New York either.

    No, it’s not. And they wonder why some of us want a Constitutional Amendment naming English as the national language.

  • http://ewebsmith.com/ ews48

    It’s not OK to not be able to speak English in California or New York either.

    The problem exists in every state.

  • Bat One

    Its hard to get much more frivolous than a lawsuit against an employer who refuses employment to someone who cannot communicate in the employer’s native language.

    Lik is correct. The very term, “Civil Rights” is all but meaningless anymore. This is simply another example of Democrats’ self-righteous pandering… and as usual, at everyone else’s expense.

  • Jeugenen

    ENGLISH IS THE LEAST OF MANY REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT

    NANCY PELOSI, AN EXTREME LEFTIST DEMOCRAT, SACRIFICES THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE INTEREST OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LOBBIES.

    WHO VOTED TO HIRE THIS FOX, A LEADING PROPONENT OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS, TO GUARD THE CHICKEN COOP?

  • Jeugenen

    AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS

    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested. When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages. And, when they return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services.

    When seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated, the experience is mutually positive.

    Mexico is land rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them. It is so inferior than none of them want to return to it.

    The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods. With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by 12 -15 million Mexicans.

    With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be second language; crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.

    When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Leftist Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of political supporters, and the vast amounts of money that they receive from the Mexican Lobby; and, those American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will lose their illegal competitive advantages.

    No advanced civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.

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