Flagler County commissioners are taking a tough new stance against tobacco users looking for work – by considering nicotine a banned drug.
Beginning Oct. 1, prospective county employees will be required to take a nicotine test in addition to pre-employment drug screening for illegal drugs.
A failed test would not only deny an otherwise qualified applicant a job, but would also prohibit employment with the county for another 12 months.
“The tobacco ban applies to anything that would produce nicotine,” said Joseph Mayer, Flagler County’s community services director. That includes cigarettes, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes, pipes and snuff.
Job applicants also must sign an affidavit stating, under penalty of perjury, that they have not used tobacco within one-year of employment.“It’s the same thing as drug use,” Mayer said. “We have a drug-free policy where everyone is tested for drug use before they come on board, and if they start using afterwards we won’t know until either a random test or a workers compensation incident.”
This is the agenda behind Obamacare.
Obamacare Will Force One Florida County to Make Nicotine Use Illegal | TheBlaze.com
Next it will be cheeseburgers and transfat...
This is how you regulate business - banning and regulating.
I suppose it's the republicans that have a "war on _______" while these crazy ****ing progressives have a war on capitalism and anyone that isn't dark enough and whomever doesn't have a vagina or prays to the east 5 times a day...
That is an absurd leap. The article even states "The new policy is aimed at reducing health insurance costs" I think you can point your finger at the health insurance industry not Obamacare.
Conspiracy theory much?
Conspiracy theory? I just posted the ****ing proof..
BTW, just about everything is a literal conspiracy.... Unless it's lone - it's a conspiracy...
Of course, the county in question could just say they're not going to test for nicotine. But that's too easy, and couldn't be blamed on Obama.
This is the agenda behind Obamacare.
Obamacare Will Force One Florida County to Make Nicotine Use Illegal | TheBlaze.com
Next it will be cheeseburgers and transfat...
This is how you regulate business - banning and regulating.
I suppose it's the republicans that have a "war on _______" while these crazy ****ing progressives have a war on capitalism and anyone that isn't dark enough and whomever doesn't have a vagina or prays to the east 5 times a day...
Your definition of "proof" needs a little work...
"They" could say whatever they like but that's not the direction they're going.
Get it?
No...actually obama is pro-capital....
http://www.debatepolitics.com/bias-media/171926-why-obama-republican-conservative.html
You need to drop the loyalty ****........ This is epic proof of what I have been saying for nearly a half decade.
This is the intent and agenda behind Obamacare....
Thank God the ****ing program is impossible to fund and mandate.
There are increasing numbers of corporations that won't hire tobacco users. I think you'll see more and more of that but not specific to Obamacare. Smokers are not a "protected class" and won't be anytime soon.
That is an absurd leap. The article even states "The new policy is aimed at reducing health insurance costs" I think you can point your finger at the health insurance industry not Obamacare.
Oh he's pro capital when it comes to his rich campaign contributors, they give him money and he has the dogs back off.
There are increasing numbers of corporations that won't hire tobacco users. I think you'll see more and more of that but not specific to Obamacare. Smokers are not a "protected class" and won't be anytime soon.
strange that our local community college and sheriff's office are cutting hours and jobs because they have zero budget flexibility to otherwise absorb the increased healthcare costs of their employees due to Obamacare. The reason they need to reduce their costs is because of the increased expense of health insurance. :think:
Like everybody else in Washington. That's how the game is played.
That is called discrimination.... No different than refusing to hire a person with AIDS, gay people, woman, minorities or whatever their "social status" may be...
In reality this is government endorsed discrimination - only because the idea benefits both the government and some fascist businesses (whom are being forced into this nonsense).
Well, they just have to find the funds to test for nicotine...then they can blame "big gubmint."
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