Quote:When you accept a contract you agree to the stipulations of the contract which in this case includes a behavioral clause. If you don't want to agree to the behavioral clause then don't sign it.

 

Let's see, I'm going to pay a man $3000 to paint my house but I want him to agree he doesn't smoke while doing it. He has the option to take it, or not. Smoking is legal right? Blackmon took it and he took the money then violated the behavioral clause. Pay the penalty!

 

In my company the standard integrity statement was; "If you don't want it plastered on the front page of the newspaper then don't do it!"

 

Regards........................the Chiefjag

What we're dealing with is you tell the guy he cant smoke on his own time on the weekend. And that exact thing is already happening and its morally objectionable. EMPLOYERS should not have such controls over their employees on their own time. It enslaves us all to the whims of employment contracts. We used to believe that certain elements of life were restricted from the employer. That's why we ended child labor, company stores and enacted work restrictions (overtime), FMLA, and the ADA. Because employment is not ownership we legally ended many of those evils and garnered protections for the working class. Now we're seeing the working class dissolved in the name of bigger profits for the management and share holders. This Blackmon thing is just one small and insignificant battle in that fight for the rights of you and me against the big money that wants to simply wring us out for the lowest possible operating cost and then, when we have nothing left to give, cast us to curb.

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