This is the nightmare of each employer. A year previously, Edgar Tillery said her supervisor at the Indiana Workforce Development Dept. that its performance in quality of auditor was satisfactory, and that he should shape up or consider his resignation. His answer? He went outside his parked car, grabbed a gun and caught fire, court documents say.
Fortunately the weapon jammed, and no one was injured. Tillery is now serving a sentence of 15 years in prison. Business groups seized on the incident as an example of why companies should have the right to prohibit employees to have guns in their vehicles to work. Barely two weeks after the shooting, however, Governor Mitch Daniels (R - Ind.) enacted a measure that does the opposite - prohibits employers to tell workers that they may not have guns in their car.
Indiana is now one of the 13 States shall grant these rights to employees. The spread of the "parking" or "bring your gun to fire to work" laws stems in part from the historic 2008 Supreme Court decision that struck down the ban of weapons of Washington, D.C.. Surprisingly, the filming of January of the representative of the United States Gabrielle Giffords (D - Arizona) also plays a role. 37 Bills filed in 16 legislatures of State this year involving firearms on the assets of the company, 33 came after the attack of Tucson, said the legal community against Violence, a centre of interest public law in San Francisco. Activists of gun rights, fearing a backlash, grow broader rights, says Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a Washington advocacy group. "People see such an incident and they think, ' they will take our guns." "We have best each act we can,'" said Everitt.
The trend is alarming for some enterprises and business groups, policies to ensure safe workplaces are in conflict with the second amendment - and increase the potential liability of employers. Products company Weyerhaeuser (WY) prohibits the guns on the assets of the company and fired workers for the transportation of hunting rifles in their car. The company maintains its policy, which is in contradiction with the laws of the State six give employees the right to keep firearms in vehicles. "The main concern is the safety of our employees, step of guns," spokesman Bruce Amundson said. The movement of the gun "is erroneous" employee rights, says George Raymond, Vice President, human resources and relationships of the work to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. "We have shootings in parking lots like it's O.K. Corral".
Now employers fear that the gun lobby will push through bills that allow employees bring weapons to fire in the Office. The legislature of Tennessee in March adopted a draft law, that the signing of the Republican Governor Bill Haslam, declaring handguns on property of the company, which could include the office, are not dangerous for the workers. What little research exists on the issue say otherwise: workplaces which allowed the guns were about five times more likely to experience a homicide as those where all weapons have been banned, concludes a report of May 2005 in the American Journal of Public Health who analysed it employers in North Carolina. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, said in the workplace caused shootings 420 deaths in 2009 and 421 in 2008.
The measures proposed this year in Indiana and North Dakota and defended by the National Rifle Assn.. would allow workers to sue their employers for even to ask questions about weapons firearms in vehicles. Gun rights advocates say that invoices are required to penalize companies that do not respect the law. "It is stated in our Constitution," said Indiana Senator Johnny Nugent, a Republican of Lawrenceburg which sits on the Board of Directors of the NRA and is the author of the Bill pending in Indiana. "People have the right to defend itself."
The bottom line: State measures leave employees have firearms on the assets of the company are a surprising outgrowth of the Gabrielle Giffords of shooting.
Shielding is a journalist for Bloomberg News.
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