Rodrigues was fired in 2006 by The Scotts Company, the lawn care giant, because a required drug
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Rodrigues was fired in 2006 by The Scotts Company, the lawn care giant, because a required drug test revealed nicotine in his urine. Company policy forbade employee smoking both on and off the job. Scotts announced in 2005 that it would no longer hire smokers, and it gave its employees one year to comply with the new policy, which was designed to improve employee wellness and reduce company health care costs. Rodrigues was a pack-a-day smoker when he was hired. He was aware of the no-smoking policy, and he had been warned to quit when a supervisor saw a pack of cigarettes on he dashboard of his car. Was Rodrigues wrongfully terminated? What questions would you have before deciding? Explain. See Sacha Pfieffer, “Off-the-Job Smoker Sues over Firing,” The Boston Globe, November 30, 2006 [www.bostonglobe.com].
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Law Business And Society
ISBN: 9781260247794
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