Posted on 01/02/2020 11:25:47 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
As a constitutionalist, I think they should have the right to refuse to employ people with a certain eye color or height or age. So I have zero problem with this.
Where this stuff crosses a line with me is when governments require things like this with laws like Jim Crow. Government can’t discriminate, but private parties should have the right to and, in fact, the constitution protects that right. Even if the private party is a business. Though some on this and other SCOTUS would agree with me.
Marijuana isn’t illegal in California, but places can still pot test and deny employment based on usage.
How about motorcycle riders, extreme sports participants, etc.
This will not end well.
So what is the detection level?
They could have an “issue.”
https://testcountry.com/blogs/nicotine/6-common-food-with-nicotine-content
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There are plenty of people OK with companies denying pot smokers employment even if it’s legal in that state. I have less than zero sympathy for anyone who smokes and is angered by this if they don’t equally condemn any company that drug tests for anything else.
i agree with this! and i cannot understand why it’s ok to create a “pickle Park” but a man/woman combo in public makes the newspapers.
Everybody just get a room.
The Beavis and Buttheads of the world are in position to take over!
My company is located in a smoke-free campus. There aren’t any designated smoking areas anywhere.
Employees are required to sign a nicotine attestation during open enrollment, and are hit with a large monthly surcharge if they are smokers.
As someone whose out-of-pocket premium is based on the annual company-wide usage of health benefits, I’m 100% good with this.
Yes, I know cheeseburger attestations are next, but smoking is just plain stupid at this point.
This can’t be constitutional-
What if they charged smokers more for benefits instead? To be honest, I don’t see a solution ever coming for health care, it’s depressing, soon will be working solely for benefits, that’s it.
OMG this is insanity how do you like living in communism lite!!!!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
C.S.Lewis
These people will not stop until everyone is choked under the heel of their oppression.
This can’t be constitutional-”
The Constitution does not mention hiring and employment practices for private companies.
GEEZE even in communist China people are allowed to smoke GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!! NEVER thought I would see the day, seems I am saying this EVERY DAY now!!!
My company is located in a smoke-free campus. There aren’t any designated smoking areas anywhere.
“It’s so Soviet!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGBv8j4Xb3E
I see nothing in my copy of the Constitution which gives the government the slightest right to interfere in the employer-employee relationship.
IT’s every bit as legal as drug testing in state that have legal cannabis.
But then I think *ANY* testing of blood, breath, DNA, or urine should ONLY be permitted by one’s doctor with all results completely confidential.
It does mention the right to pursue happiness nicotine makes some people happy!!!
Uhaul is a thug outfit. Has been for a long time.
“OMG this is insanity how do you like living in communism lite!!!!”
No, it’s the American system, where private companies make decisions they belive are best for their bottom line.
“It does mention the right to pursue happiness nicotine makes some people happy!!!”
Where does the U.S. Constitution mention the right to pursue happiness?
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