RE: Who cares about ethics?

[Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Oh, I vehemently disagree.

Do you eat doughnuts? Fish and chips? Drink coffee? Do
you drive? Walking would be safer, you know. Do you
have a pet dog? You'll live longer if you do--married?
Children might reduce your availability for work, do
you have those?

At what point do individual choices reasonably permit
an employer to deny your employment?

Cheers,

Sean


--- MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com wrote:
> Sean Brierley [mailto:seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> [...]
> > Witnessing an employer refusing to hire a
> > well-qualified candidate because they were a
> smoker.
> [...]
> 
> The smoker would probably expect to receive the same
> 
> nominal benefits package as other employees. The
> smoker 
> could be seen to be deliberately choosing to raise
> the 
> cost of group insurance/bennies for that employer, 
> and indirectly for the other employees.  If the loss
> of 
> that particular candidate were considered less than
> the 
> anticipated longterm losses due to having him/her in
> 
> the insuree pool, then that looks like a good
> business 
> decision on the part of the employer. No ethical
> consideration 
> there.

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