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Maryland Hospital Bans Employees From Smoking Anywhere On Earth
dailycaller.com ^ | 7/8/2014 | Tristyn Bloom

Posted on 07/09/2014 6:36:40 AM PDT by rktman

Starting next year, Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis will require potential employees to pass a drug test–detecting nicotine.

This so-called “job screening” will bar any applicants who smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes, snuff, hookah, and even e-cigarettes from being eligible for employment. While the hospital already has a smoking ban on the premises and surrounding sidewalks, this policy forbids new employees from consuming tobacco anywhere, at any time.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: didiots; pufflist; smokersrights
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Sadly, your off duty hours are apparently no longer yours. Are they going to check for traces of alcohol in your system? Does that mean that you also must never go anyplace where people are smoking because you might inhale some evil 2nd hand smoke that'll show up in your p-test? Will traces of weed be okay? How about parachuting? Can you still do that? Can you go skiing? Can you ride a motorcycle? Might as well set up dorms and have the employees live on site. They're the employer so they can pretty much dictate your terms of employment.
1 posted on 07/09/2014 6:36:40 AM PDT by rktman
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Maryland is a hell hole, ruled by Facist Democrats.

So this shouldn’t surprise us.


2 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Obama's Storm of Illegal immigrants, = new democrat voters and His Katrina Moment!)
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To: rktman

I bet they run CNN in 24/7 in the hospital.


3 posted on 07/09/2014 6:38:51 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: rktman

When you interbreed plants you can get some interesting results. Same thing with memes.

Here we see the bastard offspring of the historical Puritanical streak in the country crossed with dictatorial progressivism.


4 posted on 07/09/2014 6:39:20 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rktman

Now is the time. Americans have been groomed for this sort of control. They will quietly submit.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 6:39:21 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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They should tell them what to eat too, while they are at it. The employees would be healthier if they stuck to a diet strictly controlled by their employer.

Freedom is dead.


6 posted on 07/09/2014 6:40:00 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: rktman
Sadly, your off duty hours are apparently no longer yours. Are they going to check for traces of alcohol in your system?

Well, in places where recreational pot use is now legal, are you going to restrict that for employees who use it on their own time? Do you seriously want high employees working in such a technical, legally litigious environment? What about other recreational drug use? Does "legal" somehow make something a "right?"

Private employers should be able to restrict whatever they want.

7 posted on 07/09/2014 6:40:41 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: brownsfan

What’s next ... vaginal swabs to detect sexual activity ?


8 posted on 07/09/2014 6:41:02 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: rktman

I suppose even nicorette would show up if they’re testing just for nicotine.


9 posted on 07/09/2014 6:42:36 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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The employees would be healthier if they stuck to a diet strictly controlled by their employer. Freedom is dead.

Freedom died when the rest of us had to pick up the cost for irresponsible behavior of others.

10 posted on 07/09/2014 6:43:19 AM PDT by ladyjane
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They're the employer so they can pretty much dictate your terms of employment.

Unless of course you practice unsafe gay sex in bathhouses in your spare time. In that case, law prohibits them from doing anything except move you to the head of the hiring line.

11 posted on 07/09/2014 6:43:39 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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This is hardly news. Many employers won't hire job candidates who smoke. And when larger companies buy out their smaller competitors, it's the smokers who get furloughed...
12 posted on 07/09/2014 6:44:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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Well I’m sure it would show up but as long as you are in a “program” to de-program you from the evil cigarettes that is approved by the employer, you may get a pass. Of course if you stay on said program for 3 or 4 years, the might get a little suspicious.


13 posted on 07/09/2014 6:45:50 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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Well, there is that. Probably get a raise for being glbt(gilbert) tolerant.


14 posted on 07/09/2014 6:46:55 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

companies will now HAVE to expand the ban to pot smoking.

Imagine the liability for companies which do not ban employees who pot smoke.

I am surprised insurance companies have not stepped in and denied insurance to anyone who pot smokes (for auto insurance)


15 posted on 07/09/2014 6:47:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: knarf

> What’s next ... vaginal swabs to detect sexual activity ?

Only to ensure it’s same sex activity.


16 posted on 07/09/2014 6:47:08 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: rktman

Yes, it would show up, and probably would cause the person to not be hired or to lose his/her job, even if they said it was to kick the habit. Nicotine is nicotine, in the urine. The ban probably covers ANY nicotine usage.


17 posted on 07/09/2014 6:47:41 AM PDT by NEMDF
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-total-smoking-ban-raises-privacy-concerns

Whoops.

The linked article references Weyco, a private benefits administration firm that banned smoking for their employees anywhere on earth nearly 10 years ago.

We have plenty of freepers all in favor of employment at will (hire and fire whomsoever you choose for whatever reason), and then we have the freepers commenting on this thread.


18 posted on 07/09/2014 6:48:05 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“This is hardly news. Many employers won’t hire job candidates who smoke.”

It’s become quite common with healthcare systems, in particular. This article is from a couple of years ago, so all the data may not be up to date:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/story/2012-01-03/health-care-jobs-no-smoking/52394782/1


19 posted on 07/09/2014 6:48:23 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: ladyjane

Right.


20 posted on 07/09/2014 6:49:05 AM PDT by Ditter
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