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I agree with Arcana that the nonsense has to stop.
Obviously English should be the 'master' language. It's the language of the Isles and of the vast majority of the people.
If a company then insists another language to be spoken is, say, Pakistani because of the huge number of them already working there, then that's up to them. I'd still think it was sad but on the other side of the coin it would give them no excuse.
But you can't just headhunt foreigners over the English.* (And I'm half-Pole myself, with the others in my family agreeing too.)
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* And that includes integrated second-generation immigrants of course. And I'm not just saying that because I'm one myself.
I was being sarcastic, but anyhoo they're not hunting "foreigners", they're hunting fluent Polish speakers. The ads don't say must speak Polish ONLY. This is a private business, is it not? Do they not have the right to demand whatever specific skills they feel like demanding? Why do you hate the free market?
Then it follows that anyone can advertise for only White workers, Asian workers or no Irish Need Apply.
You complained when i jokingly made references to political correctness in the "Eskimo" post but this appears to be the same PC craziness that will ultimately lead to the splintering and separations of groups, rather than an E Pluribus Unum situation.
What puts the Pole speaking Polish above over nationals applying for a meat job for the firm supplying Asda? Or any other company for that matter?
No, it doesn't follow. White, Asian or Irish is not a skill. That would be discrimination based on race or nationality. It's a completely different issue.
And for the record, I think a private business should be able to hire who they bloody well please, even if it's an all white, skin-headed, all male staff. Let the customer decide who they want to do business with. But that's my unpopular Libertarian side.
In which case, RoP, it sounds like your real beef should be with regards to worker exploitation, not with requiring that applicants be fluent in more than English.
Ordinarily there shouldn't be one on just that level, but all we normally hear on that front are mantras about 'equal oppertunities employers' or how it's so evil to 'discriminate'. My last links provide just some evidence of that. (And the whole basis of the court action against the BNP was that they chose to pick their friends on a similar basis. The BNP's not the same as a meat packing company, but this type of policy can't be bad just for them.)
But it's suddenly OK to advertise jobs for Polish speakers. You hear not a peep then, though the Equalities and Human Rights Commission did say the company may have broken the law when they were pressed to.
(And this is NOT a situation calling for the speaking of more than one language - it calls for speakers to be properly fluent in Polish specifically, or it did until the firm was exposed by the press. A case of being deliberately obtuse perhaps.)
That comes back to a previous question - how does speaking Polish make you better at the meat job?
If you ask for Polish speakers, you'll be more likely to get Poles.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't make any sense to you or me or anyone else. This is a private business and they should be able to decide what skills are mandatory for employment or not.
Yes and no. There are laws to follow on the subject. Now language skills is not covered by most laws and is fully legal as a requirement, but advertising for Poles only would I suspect be illegal anywhere in Europe. For that matter at least in Denmark (and I believe it is an EU law), it is illegal to advertise for people of a specific sex too and a bunch of other things.. like religion, colour and so on.
It is all down to the wording basically.
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