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Spanish-Speaking Workers Challenge English-Only Policy at Sheet Metal Factory
by chaz | November 26, 2007 at 06:33 pm
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Spanish-Speaking Workers Challenge English-Only Policy at Sheet Metal FactoryMonday, November 26, 2007
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
After a sheet metal plant in Connecticut ordered its employees to speak only English on the job because of safety concerns, five Spanish-speaking workers decided to take the company to court.
The employees, who are legal immigrants, say the rule amounts to discrimination and actually makes the workplace more hazardous.
"I can think of no good reason for them to institute this policy," said Steven Jacobs, the lawyer for the workers who are suing GC Industries in Deep River, Conn. "It's offensive to people who speak Spanish and is potentially dangerous. It inhibits them from communicating in their native tongue in situations that could put people at risk."
According to the lawsuit, the plant's "Common Language Policy" was suddenly posted in fliers on the factory bulletin board on March 15, 2006.
The notice stated that "there be one language spoken during working time at all plants and facilities of GCI, and that language is English." It specified that the policy would be enforced when "any employee is 'on the clock,'" and said violations could lead to warnings and dismissal.
Court documents show that the announcement, which was also posted in Spanish, was signed by company president Thomas Arbella.
If you can't speak enough English to do a job effectively and safely, it's the same as hiring a a floor sweeper to design a nuclear plant, it's just not effective. So now the courts will force businesses to hire or keep people at the governments discretion? Say goodbye to more jobs and more Mexicans, as no one will want to hire them for fear of their new found ability to sue for language discrimination. There is no better way to see the Mexican invasion crushed than beneath their own feet. It's poetic justice.
Finally a reason to like slimey lawyers->
I once said that if you make it legal for the illegals to sue their employers for wages and health risk and injury and discrimination, the illegals will make themselves a pariah, they're doing fine....
November 26, 2007 at 06:33 pm by chaz, 537 views, add comment
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