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Pelosi Says Requiring English At Work Illegal
Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:42 — Judicial Watch Blog

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised to kill legislation that protects employers from being sued--by the U.S. government, no less--for discrimination simply because they require workers to speak English.

A Tennessee lawmaker sponsored the measure because the taxpayer-funded federal agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC) has used public funds to sue numerous businesses for requiring employees to speak English.

One of those lawsuits, against a well-known Christian charity, made headlines earlier this year. The EEOC sued the Salvation Army for violating the civil rights of two Spanish-speaking employees at a Massachusetts thrift store. The women—one from the Dominican Republic and the other from El Salvador—were actually given a year to learn some English but they refused and the charity fired them.

A growing number of such lawsuits pushed Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander to sponsor legislation that essentially says it’s not against federal law for an employer to require an employee to speak English on the job. His measure denies the EEOC funds to continue using taxpayer dollars to sue businesses that require English at work.

Members of Congress recognized the need to end such frivolous government lawsuits and the measure received overwhelming support, with the U.S. Senate passing it 75-19 in October and the House voting for it 218-186 earlier this month.

This week Pelosi, the notorious California liberal, vowed to block the measure from being implemented because outraged members of the Hispanic Caucus revolted against it. Fortunately, federal courts have broadly upheld an employer’s right to require employees to speak English on the job. This includes a 2003 ruling, unrelated to this year’s lawsuit, that the Salvation Army’s English policy is perfectly legal.
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This will never fly !!!

Members of Congress recognized the need to end such frivolous government lawsuits and the measure received overwhelming support, with the U.S. Senate passing it 75-19 in October and the House voting for it 218-186 earlier this month.
This week Pelosi, the notorious California liberal, vowed to block the measure from being implemented because outraged members of the Hispanic Caucus revolted against it. [quote:3ow5sw5w]

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I think Ms. Nasty Pelosi would do well to recognize there are more OUTRAGED AMERICANS than 'outraged members of the Hispanic Caucus'. For more than 200 years, the English language has worked out fine for us. In fact, many other nations recognize that learning the English language is a great step up the ladder of success. Now why on earth would we want to change or 'fix' what is not broken simply to appease a few irate, foot stomping, racist caucus members?

What a load of crap. How about all the Americans who can no longer get jobs because they don't speak Spanish? Where is Pelosi on that one? Why is she not trying to protect American citizens who can't speak Spanish? Grrrrrr.

Employers can say no personal phone calls at work. If they do business in English then all conversations in any other language is personal and not business.

Originally Posted by slyhunter

Employers can say no personal phone calls at work. If they do business in English then all conversations in any other language is personal and not business.

thats right and if they are in America legal and working here then they should already know English

This is what we get with Nancy Pelosi. In retaliation of the failed Bush policies the dems got in, now its really going to be an uphill battle. Pelosi is a phony extreme San Francisco liberal who has made a fortune off illegals in her Napa Valley wineries. This country better wake up. As bad as the republicans have been at least there were some in the House on our side. When voting for the next President one needs to remember that having a democrat with Nancy running the show it will be over for the USA. She actually said the only thing separating Mexico and the U.S. is a "border" we're all the same people (I'm paraphrasing) but it is real scary.

If the Democrat's cant protect American citizens... it's time for the Democrats to go

We have already seen that the Rebublicans are not protecting us.. it is time to throw out both parties and run Independant

conversely, requiring Spanish at WORK should also
be illegal....right. Too many jobs in Florida require
spanish....that should be illegal.

Now what language should be spoken in the USA in order
to conduct business...?

I wish someone would oust this crazy bey@tch out of office. What a NUT CASE!