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“Off-the-job smoker sues over firing”

Filed under On the Job
Posted by Libraries, December 15, 2006
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Sacha Pfeiffer, The Boston Globe, Nov. 30, 2006
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/11/30/
offthejobsmokersuesoverfiring/

Can your employer regulate your legal activities outside the workplace? A new legal case is exploring this question:

“A Buzzards Bay man has sued The Scotts Co., the lawn care giant, for firing him after a drug test showed nicotine in his urine, indicating that he had violated a company policy forbidding employees to smoke on or off the job. The suit … is highly unusual because it involves an employee who was terminated for engaging in legal activities away from the workplace.”

Interested in learning more about your rights as an employee? Stop by the Career Resource Library in P304E to take a look at the following titles:
—Busse, R. Employees’ rights: your practical handbook to workplace law. Naperville, Ill.: Sphinx, 2004.
—Repa, B. Your Rights in the Workplace. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2005.

—Jennifer M. Lege