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To: GQuagmire

...putting him in violation of a company policy forbidding employees to smoke on or off the job....
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Well, just another example of socialism working hard in the Peoples Republic of Mass --- trying to control what a person does when not on the job -- Karl Marx is smiling.


3 posted on 11/29/2006 3:03:55 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Well, just another example of socialism working hard in the Peoples Republic of Mass --- trying to control what a person does when not on the job -- Karl Marx is smiling.


Employers should be greatly concerned about how employees perform their jobs and what happens in the workplace, but how employees want to lead their private lives is their own business," said Boston lawyer Harvey A. Schwartz, who represents Scott Rodrigues in his lawsuit against Scotts, which is based in Marysville, Ohio.


6 posted on 11/29/2006 3:07:17 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: EagleUSA
I work for Scotts.

The company announced this policy over a year ago. They gave smokers until Oct 1 of this year to quit. The company offered to pay for any program an employee chose to stop smoking.

I don't smoke and I don't agree with the policy but it is a private company, not government, and they should be able to hire and fire anyone they want to within reason.

9 posted on 11/29/2006 3:13:14 PM PST by NEPA
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To: EagleUSA

This has nothing to do with the State, it's a private employers policy.


45 posted on 11/29/2006 4:02:56 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
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To: EagleUSA
Well, just another example of socialism working hard in the Peoples Republic of Mass -

Nope. I live 20 miles from Scott's world HQ in Ohio. It started in Ohio. We heard about it here over a year ago.

105 posted on 11/29/2006 5:21:42 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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