Obama Rules That Requiring Employees To Speak English Is Discriminatory According to recent reports, the White House has recently decided to take up a lawsuit against a private company for their decision to require employees to speak fluent English. The case involved one Green Bay plastic and metal manufacturer who recently fired some Asian and Hispanic workers who could not speak our countrys native language. According to Obamas Employment Commission, the action was discriminatory, given that those skills were not needed to perform their jobs. Further, the administration claims that in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it became illegal to force employees to speak English. When speaking English fluently is not, in fact, required for the safe and effective performance of a job, nor for the successful operation of the employers business, requiring employees to be fluent in English usually constitutes employment discrimination on the basis of national origin and thus violates federal law, claims the attorney representing the government in the case. What do you think of lawsuit? Is it absolutely ridiculous? 