Discrimination based on lack of important job skills:

The Guardian reports (thanks to OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web):

French employees will accuse a US multinational in court today of discrimination, claiming that they are being forced to speak English.

They say General Electric Medical Systems is sidelining the large proportion of its workforce who speak little or no English. It encourages them to work with company documents and instruction manuals written in English. . . .

Lawyers for the union CGT will argue that the company is in breach of the 1994 Toubon law, which says that all documents vital to an employee being able to work effectively must be in French. . . .

And it’s Europeans who deride us Americans (with some justice) for not knowing foreign languages.