EEOC has crossed the line in Its overzealous pursuit of companies that require English in the workplace. Only Congress can bring this organization back to its intended mission. If we dont. the continued proliferation of Englishrelated lawsuits will cause employers facing close hiring decisions to hire defensively. to the detriment of new immigrants with marginal English proficiency. While the children of Immigrants typically learn English in our school system. adult immigrants are most likely to learn or improve language skills for workrelated reasons often through programs that are simply hosted by the employers themselves. This arrangement is ordinarily a winwin situation. The immigrant is encouraged to gain a full knowledge skill that improves his work efforts and civic engagement. and the employer benefits from having employees that can communicate with one another. So the EEOCs policy takes a mutually beneficial situation and injects the constant fear of litigation on employers. Most importantly. since the EEOCs funds are fungible. every dollar it uses to pursue these cases is a dollar not being spent on pursuing the kind of discrimination that the EEOC was originally created to combat.
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