“What you do in your own home on your own time is none of your boss’s business unless it affects your work,” he said.
Hummm, this’ll be a tough one for the Libs.
Solution is easy, and already in practice in some States...Right to Work. It’s not the employees job. The employer is more than welcome to NOT hire smokers, as they are to NOT hire anyone they don’t wish.
Why would an employer hire a smoker, knowing they must supply ‘smoke breaks’ (anyone else get that benefit)? Already that’s, what, 30 min. of unproductive time? Let alone the proclivity for more health issues (paid time off).
Might as well hire a 7-month pregnant woman knowing she’s gonna download as soon as she’s through her training period; PLUS then having to hold the position in case she wants to come back into the workforce (how long is that lull?)...
Yeah, I can see why business don’t want to start in the U.S. anymore.
Let’s go down that road, shall we?
Overweight? Not worth hiring.
Drink booze? Not worth hiring.
Have past medical problems? Don’t bother applying.
Over 40? Don’t even bother.
Have any run in with the law? Even a traffic ticket? We don’t hire convicted criminals, period.
Perception is everything. The perception is that employer large and small are chomping at the bie to ram through amnesty, and kick the indigenous workforce to the curb. I say go ahead, make it happen, and then you have to as an employer, deal with the consequenses. When your unemployment insurance rates and tax rates go through the roof, to pay for all of those employees you kicked to the curb, no matter how productive they were, over the issue of the day, I won’t say you had it coming. The illegals you hire will be far worse than any native workforce you hire, because you’ll have to deal with the backlash, lost productivity, and worst of all putting yourselves in real physical jeapordy.
The profits at all cost crowd, and their modern day mexican slave drivers and outsourcing/offshoring firms are really pushing their luck.
So smokers, not corporate taxes and regulations are the reason businesses don’t want to start in the U.S. anymore. Who would have know?