Reference no: EM132653570

Companies Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban

1. Legally aside, do you agree in the principle that forbidding smokers is discriminatory? Explain.

2. Assume you are the employee representative on the executive board company. You know the vice president of human's resources plans to propose a smoker ban to begin June 1 for all new hires and the following January for all existing employees. However, you've been asked to keep the plans quiet. What would you do and why?

3. Now assume you have permission to share the information. You know employees' responses are likely to be emotional (some positive and some negative). How would you present the information to them?

4. More generally, under what circumstances do companies have the right to consider and ban legal employee behaviors during the hiring process, as many are doing now with tobacco consumption? Explain -

5. What is your position regrading policy changes (like a smoke ban) and applying them to existing employees who were hired under different guidelines? Explain your position.