Re:Maryland bans employers from asking for employee social m...
by mattmanser on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:08AM
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It's not wrong for your employer to start dictating what you do on your own time?
Damn you Americans have one fucked up country, all hail your corporate overlords!
Guess who doesn't take those tests too? The CEOs and the directors and the partners. They can snort as much coke as they want, but woe betide the worker bees doing it.
The utter hypocrisy of it all is astounding.
Re:Maryland bans employers from asking for employee social m...
by ericd on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @02:59PM
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You're missing the point - it's their right to employ who they want (with a few mandated exceptions), just as it's the workers' right to work for whomever they want. Yes, some employers use that right to make decisions based on poor metrics, but that's the price of freedom for all, and other employers who aren't bigoted can benefit.
And sure, it's legal and ethical for an employer not to want to employ anyone they don't want to work with, as long as it's not a protected class. Drug use wasn't one of those, last I checked. It's not necessarily a smart idea to fire qualified people who smoke pot on their own time just because you don't like the idea of having pot smokers represent your company, but it's not wrong.