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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 ::
Where there's smoke, you're fired Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
That's right. They can't smoke at home. They can't smoke on their own time. To work for Weyco Inc. is to be owned by Weyco Inc. And the Weyco way may well be legal.
'I don't want to pay for the results of smoking,' Weyco founder Howard Weyers explained to Medicine Law & Weekly.
But wait, one of the four fired women, receptionist Anita Epolito, told reporters she didn't even belong to the Weyco health plan.
That doesn't matter, a Weyco spokeswoman replied, because 'she knew, starting at Day One, that the organization itself was going smoke free.' Employees who smoke had 'a choice' between smoking and working, and some chose smoking. (I should mention that, to their benefit, some employees chose to quit smoking.)------------------------------------------- posted 12:27 PM :: reference link ::
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