CORPORATE SMOKING BANS
March 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEAN AMERICAN company from Michigan recently gave his employees a choice: quit smoking or lose your job. Four employees from Weyco, a firm that manages benefit plans for workers on behalf of other companies, were sacked in January after refusing to take a nicotine test on whether they had smoked since a deadline of January 1, this year.Bullish Weyco President Howard Weyers, has been unapologetic about his decision. "Some call this a violation of privacy, pointing to the principle that what you do in your own home is your own business. But they forget ...
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