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by Jay
on Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:09 pm |
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All I can say is it's appalling that the Whirlpool folks are treating this as a serious offense. Rape is more of a serious offense. A worker lying about being a nonsmoker is not a serious offense (and that's putting it nicely).
If you smoke and you had to pay more money for insurance, wouldn't you lie about being a nonsmoker to your boss too?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352112,00.html
Whirlpool Corp. Suspends 39 Workers for Claiming to Be Nonsmokers
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Whirlpool Corp.'s Evansville plant has suspended
39 workers for smoking while claiming on their health insurance that
they were nonsmokers.
The company requires smokers to pay an extra $500 in insurance
premiums.
Company spokeswoman Debby Castrale says the workers were seen by
others smoking in designated smoking areas outside the plant.
She says Whirlpool considers falsifying company documents a very
serious offense. Final disciplinary action is pending fact-finding
meetings with each worker over the next few days.
Castrale says most of the suspensions were of production employees.
But she says more suspensions could come, possibly including some
administrative staff. |
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by smallbird
on Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:58 pm |
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by smallbird
on Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:48 pm |
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| And today, Whirlpool stock dropped $8.32 per share....hmmm, I own some of that stock... |
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