It's a private company. There is nothing wrong with this.
It's a private company that would be brought before the courts if it fired an employee with AIDS.Is that okay with you?
It's a company that would be brought before the courts if it fired an obese employee. Is that okay with you?
Where does it end?
This is rich.
When are the CALOIRE tests for Hooters waitresses, or "bad breath" tests for bank tellers, or "Big Mac" tests for McDonalds employees.
What about "Mexican Food" test for people in the service industry who don't wish their employees to take the chance of being 'gassy'?
Nothing wrong when on their property, but when on your own time off company property? If the Constitution "allows" you to abort a baby becuase of your right to privacy, it should certainly allow you to smoke a legal product on your own time off corporate property. Right?
"It's a private company. There is nothing wrong with this."
I agree completely - and I'm a smoker.
I think any private company should be able to hire/fire anyone of its choosing for any reason it chooses. Again, it is a PRIVATE company.
Well this is perhaps the one thing that I agree with the DUmmies on, I saw this story at DU the other day when I was there for my daily dose of humor, of course they are predicting the end of the world over this in thier normal stupidity filled way. But I have always felt that what you do in your personal time should not have any effect on your job unless
1. You are in some way still representing the company (i.e. wearing a shirt with thier logo on it).
2. Your activity has a negitive effect on your job (i.e. constantly drinking too much and coming into work hung over, etc)
3. You demonstrate behavior that could cause problems for the company (i.e. if you are dealing drugs or even using there is a good posibility that you may have brought drugs either on your person or in your car onto the property of the business)
Anything else if it is done in your free time then so be it. I see nothing wrong with a company that doesn't like smoking refuseing to allow an employee to smoke anywhere on the business grounds, but they can't run your personal life that is a violation of your civil liberties.
A private company cannot dictate to people what they do after business hours, only during the time the people are working and getting paid. After that, their life is their own. Or are you suggesting that these people are being paid 24 hours a day? They might as well tell their workers what clothes to wear, what car they can drive and what music they can listen too. This is an illegal firing and I hope they are sued over it.
actually there is.
HOWEVER imagine if this is allowed to stand, then how about not hiring people who practice homosexual sex? That increases health costs.
How about requiring all employees to not own automobiles?
How about no motorcycle riders? (a body already litigated)
How about no beer or alchohol?
How about no red meat?
How about no conservatives since they burden the sensitivity training programs?
No smoking during working hours, yes valid point. However a legal activity inside your own home during non work hours? That is over reaching.
It's a private company. There is nothing wrong with this.
There is lots wrong with this.
It's none of that company's business what an employee does in their off hours.
This is America not the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
I pray they get their asses sued off and stop this crap.