13 Jun 22
@zahlanzi saidIf an employee engages in the use of illegal drugs in their free time, the employer has a legal right to either not employ them or fire them. If an employee shows up at work drunk, they can be fired due to dereliction of duty, not doing their job due to being inebriated. A business has the right to have a dress code, a required level of education and/or experience and rules about how customers are to be treated. A business does not have the right to refuse to provide services for people based on their race, legal sexual preference, religion, or ethnicity. That's the law. If you do not like a law, contact your elected representative, organize a legal protest, vote for someone who agrees with you. Sorry but if you hate LBGQ folks, anyone who is not white, anyone who is not Christian, anyone not born in the USA, and you do not want to sell them your services, do not open a business in the U.S.
"If I were an employer, I think I have a right to fire staff who have weed evidence of any nature."
Should someone be fired for having had a couple of beers a week prior?
"It is my enterprise, I built it, and here again your govt wants to tell me how to run it."
Workers have rights too. You fire someone for not doing their job, not because you don't approve what they do in their free time
13 Jun 22
@athousandyoung saidIt is legal in DC with a few rules about how much you can possess, etc. You cannot drive stoned. It could be argued that small amounts of some legal drugs can impair judgement ie marijuana and alcohol. i see an interesting court case here.
It's illegal by Federal law.
13 Jun 22
@sonhouse saidYour first sentence....you suggest that race is an issue for an employer, and you are correct. Can't fire on basis of race. Or those other things, color, religion , you know, Sonhouse. Tell us something we dont already know.
@mghrn55
Indeed, there should be limits on what they can fire for, or not hire for, for instance, just being black and they tell you no jobs here, but a white dude comes in a half hour later and they go start monday.
That is what the anti bias laws are about, like saying you are 53 years old and WAY too old to be hired, that is illegal also.
But like I said, there is ...[text shortened]... histicated at least not right now and till then employer rules on that sort of thing is settled law.
But if I dont like some one for other reasons, I can fire them. So you tell us what some more 'Limits' should be !!! This should be fun.
14 Jun 22
@phranny saidZahlanzi is forever confused, searching.........
If an employee engages in the use of illegal drugs in their free time, the employer has a legal right to either not employ them or fire them. If an employee shows up at work drunk, they can be fired due to dereliction of duty, not doing their job due to being inebriated. A business has the right to have a dress code, a required level of education and/or experience and rules a ...[text shortened]... born in the USA, and you do not want to sell them your services, do not open a business in the U.S.
14 Jun 22
@AverageJoe1
You tell me. You don't like ponytails on men, you fire them, that ok? What limits are you thinking of? Too short to be a basketball player? Too fat to be an athlete?
14 Jun 22
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@sonhouse saidYou sound personal, here. But yes, if a ponytail guy shows up and asks for job where the employer would find hm unsuited in such a getup, he has a right to not hire him. Remember, race, color, religion , age, and a few more, but none about ponytails on men.
@AverageJoe1
You tell me. You don't like ponytails on men, you fire them, that ok? What limits are you thinking of? Too short to be a basketball player? Too fat to be an athlete?
Personally, S'house, I would not hire him as an assistant to attend meetings with me, but I would love to give him a job as a courier, for example. He would have to have a great personality, though. BTW, I do know some sharp successful defense lawyers, with ponytails, it works for them. Makes them stand out. I would grow one myself if I could profit financially from it. To each his own, don't you think?
14 Jun 22
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@AverageJoe1
Well, if I had hair.... Actually I have some in back but it grows out like brillo pads and makes me look more like a beach bum than dignified🙂
So I started a thread about HAND PENCE and you haven't bothered to reply. I guess you don't want to get into that particular can of worms.