Posted on 02/02/2011 5:22:13 PM PST by sfwarrior
From Bob Dylan’s lyrics to a real California workplace policy, progress is being made. Despite an economy on life support with only weeks, if not hours, remaining to survive fiscally before the State Treasurer of California begins issuing IOU’s for payments, legislators have come up with a plan. Their plan is now to force employers to accept employees who come to work stoned. This should really help light-up the ailing economy. It may sound like a joke, but it’s serious.
A state lawmaker in California, during the nation’s worst recession, wants to outlaw employers from firing workers who come to work stoned. Isn’t that special?
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
And Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Morris are advocating the States like California should have the right to declare bankruptcy so they can stick it to the bond holders and tax payers while they protect the drugged out public union employees.
Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Morris need to be taken behind the woodshed.
If you smoke just before you go to work, you show up intoxicated, and you can be canned for that.
But if you fail a dope test (showing up for work unintoxicated) yet have one of the 33 million scripts for medical dope, you can’t be fired.
The thread article gets it wrong- show up zapped you get zotted.
Either way it’s not good, it is difficult to prove on the job intoxication if a pee test is the proof and 33 million of the 32 million in CA have a doctor scrip for pot.
Personally, I got mine by telling the doc I did not cough enouhg, he wrote it right up (j/k).
Here’s the words of the bill’s sponsor:
The Supreme Court case upheld the firing of a Carmichael man who was dismissed after failing a drug test as a condition of employment at a Sacramento firm, RagingWire Telecommunications. Ross had told his employer that he had a medical recommendation for back pain and spasms from injuries suffered in the U.S. Air Force.
Leno charged that the court’s interpretation effectively said that California voters had approved the legal use of medical marijuana only “to benefit unemployed people.” He said his bill will put it into law that “a medical marijuana patient has a right to employment in California.”
So if the worker tests positive for marijuana, you can’t fire him. That’s the problem. Few employers want drug addled workers, and getting them fired if they’re med marijuana patients if they’re impaired is inviting a major lawsuit that few small business can afford. The alternative, keep the druggie on the payroll
Forgot- the pot “clinics” offer lots of products you don’t smoke, cookies,candies, butter, and stuff like that. For medical patients who don’t smoke (or who go to concerts at the Forum where smoking is not allowed).
I love the defenses:"But pot doesn't affect you, it's safe" If it "doesn't do anything", then why smoke it?
Bill, I think you’re right.
How about a tsunami or nuts chewing rats?
You think service is bad now....
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