I found this article in the Tennessean. Memorial Hospital in Tennessee has put forth a new plan and will no longer higher people who smoke. People will be tested for nicotine at the same time they are tested for other drugs. Some companies nationally are adopting this new and healthy stance on hiring individuals.
Many companies want to support individuals having good health and hiring people based on health helps reinforce that. Having healthy and happy employees benefits the company in many ways.
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This is an interesting article, and also quite controversial I imagine. Although I agree that having healthy employees can benefit a company, I do not agree that employees should have to quit smoking in order to obtain a job.
ReplyDeleteI am anti-smoking but it seems unfair that they would not hire someone who smokes. I feel that as long as they had a designated area to go smoke, that was away from patients and other employees, then that should be perfectly acceptable.
If a potential candidate for the job has all the right qualifications and experiences, they should have as much right as anyone else to apply for and obtain a job. For a lot of people smoking is a way to calm down, and by taking this away it might create some unhappy, stressed out workers!!
The next thing they might want to do is stop hiring overweight employees... which would be a problem as around 54% of Americans are considered overweight.