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Old 01-29-2015, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by jy22077 View Post
I believe the policy is that NEW employees won't be hired. (They will be tested for nicotine and have be free for 90 days in order to be considered.) CURRENT employees are EXEMPT from the policy. They can still smoke and don't have to quit. Smoking has been banned from hospital for years now.
Sounds rather discriminatory to me. Can they ban fat people or folks with a family history of cancer?