This is a good explanation, thanks for keeping me from needing to dig into this. I trust you for the particulars. I'd like to add as a female that there is no way in hell I'd go through this now, even as an older woman who's pretty much comfortable in my own skin, and when I was 20 I literally would rather have put a fork in my eye than explain to my male employer that I was getting big honking blood clots in my blood flow or whatever.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Because AZ is an at-will work state, you can be fired at any time for any > reason. > > Wearing blue today? Fired. Don't like Tim Tebow? Fired. > > Don't want to give your medical records to your employer? This is normally > covered under other employment laws as a no-no for employers, a "you can't > go there" topic. But this bill would expressly grant the employer the right > to ask this question, but ONLY of women, and ONLY on the issue of > contraceptives and (as written) not even if you have insurance, but just > because they want to know. > > And based on your answer, or your refusal to answer, you can obviously be > fired. > > So although it seems a little convoluted and ridiculous to imagine an > employer doing just that, someone pressured the legislature (the judicial > committee, actually) to put this precisely worded language INTO a bill, and > change the bill from a bill about marital assets to one about employer > access to health records. Imagining the kind of person that wants access to > that information easily leads to imagining that person using that > information. > > Jerks. > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:45 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Shaking your head because you were wrong? > > > > You said the bill gives an employer the right to fire an woman solely for > > using birth control. Sam gave the actual content of the bill, which does > no > > such thing. So now you just "shake your head"? Are you doing so because > you > > feel guilty for being wrong? You feel silly for using unrelated > hyperbole? > > > > You don't need to shake your head...just apologize for being wrong, say > you > > made a mistake, and move on. No biggie. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348554 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
