From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 16:12:44 MDT
> (Brian Phillips <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net>):
>
> > Is it at all unjust for a company to make drug testing
> > (random, entrance or incident/suspicion based) a condition
> > of hiring or retention?
>
> Yes. It violates people's privacy to little good result.
That just makes it stupid, not unjust. If an employer wants to
make it a condition of your employment that you stand on one leg
and juggle, he has that right. It just wouldn't be a smart thing
for him to do.
> Being a libertarian doesn't keep me from telling such an
> employer just what he can do with his drug test. :-) >>>
...and I would applaud anyone who did so. I confess, however,
that I pissed a cup for my present job (the first time I'd ever
been asked to). I was not so broke that I /had/ to take the
offer (I had been working as a poker shill for a casino), but I
really didn't think it was in any way "immoral" for me to take
the job. It would have been different if my employer had
demanded I do something I'm opposed to--and that's one reason I
like the job I have now, because I can program without depending
on copyright for any of my income (I only write code for
in-house use).
I think that's pretty consistent with the Libertarian position--
employers should have the right to demand testing, even though
it's a bad idea; employees should have the right to decline the
job offer or quit the existing job; and the government should
butt out.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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