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Jump to full article: BLR - Business and Legal Reports, 2005-02-03
Intro: Michigan smokers can fume all they want, but there's no law preventing employers from refusing to hire them or even firing them if they refuse to quit.
That's the judgment of legal experts interviewed by many news organizations after Weyco Inc., a medical benefits administrator based in Okemos, Michigan, saw four of its approximately 200 employees quit in January, rather than submit to a mandatory smoking breath test. . . .
A spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan told the Detroit News that her organization decided not to challenge the Weyco policy because there is no state law prohibiting employers from controlling behavior outside the workplace.
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