thank you for your excellent post. And that is a great argument--he's extending 24-hour control but only paying for 8 hours.
And as for this: "It is really rather important that folks who believe in the free market step up to the plate here and smack down this employer. Because as with any other right, there have to be limits or that right will be abused. This is a clear a case as can be imagined of an abuse of the employment-at-will doctrine."
I could not agree more. What he's doing is totally outrageous and there has got to be a legal way to stop it cold.
"I could not agree more. What he's doing is totally outrageous and there has got to be a legal way to stop it cold."
Because if it is not stopped legally, it will certainly be stopped politically, and that means more laws and more regulations on ALL employers, because this ONE had to assert the power to supervise his employees' legal off-duty activities.
It's not a question of whether or not he should be able to.
He is not going to be allowed to be able to.
The only question is: do we make that real obvious right now, with a quick legal strike that sets an example?
Or do we let the employer dig in, end up giving the unions a LEGITIMATE cause to agitate about, energize the regulators, and energize the political base of people who want to regulate employers.
Employment-at-will no more means that an employer can tell you that you can't smoke in private off duty in your own house on your own time than "free speech" means you can scream obscenities at your boss and not be fired. This is just common sense, folks. The employer has none. And he should be hung out to dry by everyone on the right. This is the kind of guy who sets back the conservative movement by being an unreasonable jackass.
I could not agree more. What he's doing is totally outrageous and there has got to be a legal way to stop it cold.
I agree. As with achohol, if an employee drinks on his off hours, it is a legal substance. There is nothing the employer can do about it. As long as the employee doesn't drink during work hours.
I have known cases where the employee did drink during work hours, then claimed they only took cough medicine. There was nothing the employer could do, unless he had an eye witness. No testing for achohol is legal either. SHould be no different for any other legal substance.