“pay a total of $160,000 to the complainant”
Give $160k to a junkie and you’re going to very soon have a dead junkie.
Does this mean the county now has to hire heroin addicts?
My cousin used to live there until he died. He told me there was a lot of meth and oxycontin use up there on the Cumberland Plateau.
Let’s follow this logically. Why should someone who is on opioids be kept from flying a 747 passenger jet? Or being a train conductor? Or school bus driver?
The country is well on its way to being sharply divided into two parts: 1. those who never work but live off the work of group 2.
2. the people who work and whose earnings are seized in the form of taxes to pay the way for group 1.
Group 1 already hates group 2. Group 2 gets thrown in jail for saying anything negative about group 1.
The eventual outcome of this is that both groups become poor and miserable, while the ruling elite live high off the hog as they despise both groups.
So wait, Tennessee has a workplace random drug test policy.
A business gets cheaper Worker’s Comp insurance if they comply, so most do.
Will this exempt all opioid users?
“originally—well crafted law that has been so bastardized that it is nothing more than a hollow shell of its original intent.”
There are a few hidden assumptions in that post.
The biggest one is “original intent”.
Whose original intent—yours? Some of the writers of the legislation? Some of the lobbyists for the legislation?
I would argue that there were some dark actors behind the legislation that knew full well the havoc it would cause—and they had “original intent”.
Do you have a case number for this?