Yes. The company has a reputation to keep. You don't want to comply? You are free to look elsehwere for employment. Because what would the headline read? Something like....
"Disney Employees kills person due to texting fellow Disney employee while driving"
Should Disney Fire Employees for Texting While Driving?
SodaHead Living
2010/11/15 23:00:00
|
|
|||||
|
212 votes
|
|
66% | |||
|
88 votes
|
|
28% | |||
|
20 votes
|
|
6% | |||
Texting while driving is a serious and potentially deadly problem. But should employees be fired for doing it?
Disney sent out a company-wide memo last week prohibiting employees from sending or reading texts or e-mails while driving company or private cars, Deadline.com reports.
"Failure to comply will lead to disciplinary actions up to and including termination," the memo said.
"Distracted driving," which mainly refers to people using their mobile devices behind the wheel, reportedly caused 5,474 deaths last year.
The Obama administration has prohibited federal employees from texting while driving on government business and banned commercial truck and bus drivers from texting behind the wheel.
Thirty states and the District of Columbia prohibit drivers from texting behind the wheel; at least eight states have passed laws barring drivers from using hand-held cell phones.
We understand getting fined, but if you text while you drive, do you really deserve to lose your job?
Disney sent out a company-wide memo last week prohibiting employees from sending or reading texts or e-mails while driving company or private cars, Deadline.com reports.
"Failure to comply will lead to disciplinary actions up to and including termination," the memo said.
"Distracted driving," which mainly refers to people using their mobile devices behind the wheel, reportedly caused 5,474 deaths last year.
The Obama administration has prohibited federal employees from texting while driving on government business and banned commercial truck and bus drivers from texting behind the wheel.
Thirty states and the District of Columbia prohibit drivers from texting behind the wheel; at least eight states have passed laws barring drivers from using hand-held cell phones.
We understand getting fined, but if you text while you drive, do you really deserve to lose your job?
Read More: http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/disney-employees-f...
Top Opinion
-
donedunn 2010/11/15 23:55:42
Alaska, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington and D.C have a text messaging ban for drivers. got that off this site http://www.chacha.com/questio...
In many states now, texting or just using a cell phone while driving is illegal!
Disney sent out a company-wide memo last week prohibiting employees from sending or reading texts or e-mails while driving company or private cars, Deadline.com reports.
And why not? They're driving COMPANY cars dangerously if they're doing this so Disney had the right to fire them for it. Disney pays for these company cars and the insurance to keep them on the road so it's their right to dictate what can and can not be done in them.
2. Aren't you saying YES people should get fired??
Why is anyone shocked?
I think it should be legal to pull someone out of their car for texting and beat the crap out of them.
when you text and drive you endanger everyone on the road including yourself.
Beating their @sses would be justified as saving a life(s).
Maybe a jail sentence while we're at it.
No if they are not working. What they do on their own time is their own business ... although I do think it is wrong. It is just not right to have a company or corporation start digging their talons into any of their employees private lives.