Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Privacy rights? What privacy rights?

A Michigan company's decision to dismiss workers who smoke, even if it's on their own time, has privacy and workers' rights advocates alarmed and is raising concerns about whether pizza boxes and six packs are the next to go.
  Yahoo News article
And besides, if private business owners can fire people because of their political preference, then surely they have the right to can them for anything. Certainly unhealthy lifestyles are more impacting of an employer's economic interests than someone's political party.

Well, let me rethink that. It would be in a world where Republicans don't pass all the contracts to cronies.

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