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Business 8th Edition by Marianne Jennings
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Edition 8ISBN: 978-1285428710 Exercise 42
Kafka Wasn't Kidding
Develop a solution for employers to the problems\conflicts raised in the following report.
You know the sad story: In the early hours of the morning of March 24,1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. Exxon paid billions in fines and cleanup costs. Many people still curse Exxon as a despoiler of the environment.
It is widely believed that the captain of the tanker was drunk. To minimize the chances of another such disaster, Exxon implemented a new policy: While offering employees help in getting treatment for alcohol or drug dependency, the company declared some jobs, where safety is critical-tanker captains, for example- off-limits to anyone who has a history of abuse of alcohol or some other substance.
Now Exxon is in court again.
This time the bureaucrats in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are suing the company to protect ships' captains and the like who have had drinking or drug problems.
No, we are not kidding.
The feds say Exxon's policy, aimed at minimizing accidents, violates the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The EEOC says that Exxon is discriminating against some 50 employees who have had alcohol or drug problems but have since been rehabilitated.
Chrys Meador, an EEOC trial attorney, defends her agency's kafkaesque action. "Exxon believes they cannot get a guarantee that somebody who's had a substance abuse problem will never relapse. Well, we can't give them that guarantee. But the experts we have consulted have said that there are very positive employee assistance programs that actively monitor individuals, and there are telltale signs so that you can detect these things before they become a problem."
To other words, it's the company's responsibility to know when an ex-drunk is about to slip off the wagon or when a schizophrenic has stopped taking his pills. Only it had better be careful how it monitors these things.
Meador says the agency is just following what Congress said in the 1990 Disabilities Act. Scary tiling is, she's right.
Develop a solution for employers to the problems\conflicts raised in the following report.
You know the sad story: In the early hours of the morning of March 24,1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. Exxon paid billions in fines and cleanup costs. Many people still curse Exxon as a despoiler of the environment.
It is widely believed that the captain of the tanker was drunk. To minimize the chances of another such disaster, Exxon implemented a new policy: While offering employees help in getting treatment for alcohol or drug dependency, the company declared some jobs, where safety is critical-tanker captains, for example- off-limits to anyone who has a history of abuse of alcohol or some other substance.
Now Exxon is in court again.
This time the bureaucrats in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are suing the company to protect ships' captains and the like who have had drinking or drug problems.
No, we are not kidding.
The feds say Exxon's policy, aimed at minimizing accidents, violates the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The EEOC says that Exxon is discriminating against some 50 employees who have had alcohol or drug problems but have since been rehabilitated.
Chrys Meador, an EEOC trial attorney, defends her agency's kafkaesque action. "Exxon believes they cannot get a guarantee that somebody who's had a substance abuse problem will never relapse. Well, we can't give them that guarantee. But the experts we have consulted have said that there are very positive employee assistance programs that actively monitor individuals, and there are telltale signs so that you can detect these things before they become a problem."
To other words, it's the company's responsibility to know when an ex-drunk is about to slip off the wagon or when a schizophrenic has stopped taking his pills. Only it had better be careful how it monitors these things.
Meador says the agency is just following what Congress said in the 1990 Disabilities Act. Scary tiling is, she's right.
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