Scotts Employee Gone in a Puff of Smoke
Paul J. Martinek writes in The Boston Herald:
Privacy in the modern workplace is virtually non-existent. Your employer can put video cameras pretty much everywhere but the bathroom. Every keystroke you make on your computer can be monitored. If you receive a voicemail or e-mail at work, not only can it be listened to or read by your boss, but it could be turned over to somebody who is suing your company. Just about the only thing you can do at your desk that is truly private is a live telephone conversation, due to strict wiretapping laws.More here.
Scotts’ anti-smoking policy treats the lungs of employees as essentially company property. As Scotts apparently sees it, you have no more right to damage your lungs in your spare time then you do to drop a company laptop off your roof.
Controversial? Absolutely. Unlawful? Probably not, at least under existing laws.
Background here.
(Props, Flying Hamster.)
posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2006 07:31:00 PM
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