Company Fires All Employees Who Smoke
Feb. 3rd, 2005 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Let's see if I have this straight:
- Weyco wants to prevent employees from engaging in lawful activity outside the office, even if job performance is not affected
- Weyco does not compensate employees for telling them how to spend their own time[1]
- Weyco then fires said employees for what they do outside of the office
Conclusion:
- I think Weyco is going to get sued for an unlawful firing.
What a bunch of jerks.
[1] Some companies that require employees to carry beepers outside of the office have been known to compensate them in some way, such as paying them hourly if they have to come in to fix something, or granting them a day off for being on-call over a weekend. When the company offers you something in exchange for restricting what you do outside of the office, I'm cool with that. But when companies pull a Weyco and say, "You can't do this, AND we're not going to give you anything in return", I have a serious problem with that.
Comments welcome.
Let's see if I have this straight:
- Weyco wants to prevent employees from engaging in lawful activity outside the office, even if job performance is not affected
- Weyco does not compensate employees for telling them how to spend their own time[1]
- Weyco then fires said employees for what they do outside of the office
Conclusion:
- I think Weyco is going to get sued for an unlawful firing.
What a bunch of jerks.
[1] Some companies that require employees to carry beepers outside of the office have been known to compensate them in some way, such as paying them hourly if they have to come in to fix something, or granting them a day off for being on-call over a weekend. When the company offers you something in exchange for restricting what you do outside of the office, I'm cool with that. But when companies pull a Weyco and say, "You can't do this, AND we're not going to give you anything in return", I have a serious problem with that.
Comments welcome.