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To: neverdem
Nor can employers require you to waive your protected rights. They cannot, as a condition of employment, require you to give up your right to vote; neither can they require you to give up your right of self-protection or your right to keep and bear arms.

Yes, they can. A non-disclosure agreement -- a condition of many jobs -- asks you to waive your right to speak freely. A government security clearance does the same. A binding arbitration agreement waives your right to a trial by jury. Certain jobs require you to submit to a search without a warrant to access the workspace such as airline pilot. And so forth.

63 posted on 03/14/2007 5:21:42 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Jim Noble; FreedomCalls
Jim Noble claimed

"-- The rights referred to in the Constitution do not exist in transactions between businesses and individuals, --"

Wrong, -- and this judge explains why:

In Plona v. United Parcel Service, 2007, -- U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich found that "allowing an employer to terminate an employee for exercising a clearly established constitutional right jeopardizes that right, even if no state action is involved."

Nor can employers require you to waive your protected rights.
They cannot, as a condition of employment, require you to give up your right to vote; neither can they require you to give up your right of self-protection or your right to keep and bear arms.

Freedom Calls:
Yes, they can. A non-disclosure agreement -- a condition of many jobs -- asks you to waive your right to speak freely. A government security clearance does the same. A binding arbitration agreement waives your right to a trial by jury.

You have waivered a specific work related right for a compensation. -- Banning guns from employees vehicles is simply an uncompensated infringement of a basic right.

Certain jobs require you to submit to a search without a warrant to access the workspace such as airline pilot. And so forth.

Reasonable regulations in the workplace are understandable. -- What 'reason' is behind the banning of guns in parking lots? -- Only Ms Brady knows.

66 posted on 03/14/2007 6:04:40 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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