Is this discrimination?

That is bu!!$h!t!!! This whole political correctnes cr@p! Why is it discrimination. It's his business. If he wants to hire only blacks, only whites, only hispanics, only babies, only aliens, only animals, IT IS HIS BUSINES. HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO WHATEVER AND HIRE WHOEVER HE WANTS! This whole political corectnes thing is just a tool to control people. I think that everyone is just too good damn sensitive, it's sensless. :p Seriously, the government should stay out of it. They just want to be able to lock people away and build more jails (another business) and they will find any means to do that. Your business. You should be able to hire anyone and anything you want in Your business. My business. I should be able to hire anyone and anything i want in my business. And that is without having to explain yourself to anyone. For example, if i have my own business tomorrow, meaning i own it and am the boss. And i decide to hire only 15 year old Arab girls (just to make it look weird). And somebody comes up to me asking me why and wanting answers. If i dont want to answer, i will not answer. It's my business and i do what i want! And if that person/s has a problem with me not answering. The door is right ----- There! :)

Of course it is discrimination, and there is nothing wrong with discrimination. If you decide to date someone, you choose who to date based on their attractiveness, their personality, and so on. That's discrimination. Should everyone have the right to demand you date them, because you are discriminating? It's not your money. You have no right to even question what a company, business, or CEO does with their money. It's not yours. If you want someone to fix your driveway, or something, and I show up offering to do the work, if you refuse should I sue you for discrimination? No, I have no right to demand that you hire my services, anymore than a worker has the right to demand a company hire them. It's not our deal, we have no right to question it. We have the choice to work somewhere else, or shut up. If more white people want to get these jobs, they need to work harder and with fewer problems, than the alternative. The main reason Mexicans take jobs, is because Mexican's work. White fat Americans are lazy. I'm an American, I can say this, and I've seen it for years. I work right now at a company where half of my co-workers are the most lazy people on Earth. I have constantly wondered how the company is still open when so few do any real work.

It seems to me he is just trying to serve the customers needs. He can make any requirements or skills for the job he can defend in court. Speaking Spanish i no different than requiring a person to have the ability to lift 50 pounds if you are going to be a dock worker. For him to list the ability to speak Swallie because his best friend can speak it and he wants him to get the job would be illegal because it has nothing to do with the job. From what you tell us the ability to speak Spanish would be a benefit for this position. If you really want this position then learn Spanish.

No, it's not "discrimination" ... not in the unlawful sense of the word. It's the same as 'only hiring tech-assistants with experience in HTML or C++'

I would say it is discrimination but what can you do. The USA thrives on business and the power of the dollar so as a businessman he is doing whatever he can to make his wages and doesn't care what he has to do to get them.

To me, he is filling a need. It may seem discriminative(if that is a word) but he wants to better communicate with the contractors. On the other side, if he isn't open to hire people who just so happen to have Spanish as a second language under their belt, then it's discrimination all the way.

It all depends on the job role and few jobs have specifications. If it's not the case, then discrimination is highly unacceptable. If you cannot love your fellow human being, whom can you love then? Such people should be sent for proper counselling and should be isolated.