[goldstategop]

I'd never want to work for a company that cares more about the bottom line than about my welfare as an employee. If they pay me so much to help them stay in business, what business is of theirs if I protect my life? Don't forget, training a replacement employee is expensive. The no CCW policy of Pizza Hut and other pizza delivery companies is stupid. I agree, a company has a right to tell an employee to surrender company money or assets to a criminal if that is the employer's policy but no company that has to tell any one surrendering their lives is a condition for keeping their job.

[supercat]

I'd never want to work for a company that cares more about the bottom line than about my welfare as an employee.

If today's tort system were reasonable, I'd agree with you. But how much liability exposure should companies accept for their employees? IMHO, there needs to be a law which provides that employers shall not be liable for actions their employees commit with weapons unless:

• The employer had knowledge that an employee would commit a violent crime, could have acted to prevent it or warn others, and failed to do, if such failure is a result of wanton disregard for other people's safety.
• The employer provided the weapon in question or training therefor; or
• The employer required the employee to use or carry the weapon as a condition of employment.

If such a law were in place, I would find actions such as Pizza Hut's here to be without basis. Unfortunately, in today's legal climate I'm not so sure I can fault them. There are too many parts of the country where a shyster could find a jury to sock a large corporation for millions of dollars if they knew an employee carried a weapon and did nothing to stop it.

[supercat]

Another thing to consider: while it could be important from a legal perspective that the company "officially" forbid CCW, that does not imply that it must make much effort to enforce their policy. It may be (at least in some areas) that it's okay for people to carry so long as nobody in the company "officially" knows about it. Unfortunately, in the circumstances here it's impossible for the company to maintain its "official" policy without acting on it.

IMHO, the best course of events here (aside from some states passing liability reforms) would be for someone at Pizza Hut to politely and confidentiality suggest that an employee lawsuit would be responded to with a reasonably-decent confidential settlement offer.