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These smoking Nazis have finally gone off the deep end. In Iowa, Mercy Medical Center will test those people who apply for work there, and if they detect nicotine in their blood, they will refuse them employment.
Des Moines’ largest hospital plans to start testing prospective employees for the presence of nicotine to ensure that the company is not hiring smokers. Mercy Medical
Center-Des Moines said the new policy will take effect July 1. Any job applicant whose urine test comes up positive for nicotine will have to wait six months to apply again for a job at Mercy’s hospitals or clinics.
Mercy said it is the first Iowa hospital company to take the step.
“We recognize smoking or using tobacco products is not illegal,” Chief Human Resources Officer Robyn Wilkinson said in a press release. “However, our employees have an obligation to set a good example for the communities we serve. By implementing a nicotine-free hiring policy, Mercy will be expecting its employees to model the same healthy behaviors it encourages of its patients and their family members.”
What tyranny is this? Smoking is not illegal, especially when you smoke or chew tobacco at home. whether a person is smoking the occasional cigar, pipe, cigarette or chews tobacco should be of no concern to an employer.
What's next, refusing employment to single people who sleep around, for fear they may contract VD? Or even worse, refusing employment to gays, since they score highest on the risk factor for contracting HIV AIDS?
What comes after that, refusing people employment for being over a certain weight, or for eating too much red meat, or pork?
This not the first time this issue has come up and I have the felling the SC will end getting involved and will shootdown such BS as illegal.
Casper
These smoking Nazis have finally gone off the deep end. In Iowa, Mercy Medical Center will test those people who apply for work there, and if they detect nicotine in their blood, they will refuse them employment.
Des Moines’ largest hospital plans to start testing prospective employees for the presence of nicotine to ensure that the company is not hiring smokers. Mercy Medical
Center-Des Moines said the new policy will take effect July 1. Any job applicant whose urine test comes up positive for nicotine will have to wait six months to apply again for a job at Mercy’s hospitals or clinics.
Mercy said it is the first Iowa hospital company to take the step.
“We recognize smoking or using tobacco products is not illegal,” Chief Human Resources Officer Robyn Wilkinson said in a press release. “However, our employees have an obligation to set a good example for the communities we serve. By implementing a nicotine-free hiring policy, Mercy will be expecting its employees to model the same healthy behaviors it encourages of its patients and their family members.”
What tyranny is this? Smoking is not illegal, especially when you smoke or chew tobacco at home. whether a person is smoking the occasional cigar, pipe, cigarette or chews tobacco should be of no concern to an employer.
What's next, refusing employment to single people who sleep around, for fear they may contract VD? Or even worse, refusing employment to gays, since they score highest on the risk factor for contracting HIV AIDS?
What comes after that, refusing people employment for being over a certain weight, or for eating too much red meat, or pork?
If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
So can we also reject people who bring in stinky food or don't bath properly?
If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
Are you just spouting off an irrelevant point or does your reading comprehension need a little work? This isn't about not allowing smoking in the workplace (that's kind of old news), it's about smoking in the privacy of your home/on your own time.
If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
But..only for some people, not for all jeffington.
Doctors are exempt..the very people that you say have "that filthy stench".
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If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
Hi Jeffie! Haven't insulted me in a while, have you? Well, it's good to know you're keeping your vile little mouth in practice.
We're laughing, Jeffie. Laughing, laughing, laughing at you. Keep that picture in your head when you try to sleep at night.
This is sort of the Ron Paul / private property rights issue isn't it? Do we ask for government involvement or do we boycott businesses when we don't agree with their policies?
If an employer doesn't want nicotine in their workplace, that is their call. It is well past time for the Skanks of the world to realize that this world doesn't exist to be your ashtray or your air filter. That your filthy stench needs to be kept to your filthy stinking selves, and not inflicted on normal people.
Normal people ???? Is that defined as anyone who does what you do?????
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