Ban Guns On Their Property And Workplace Safety With Guns

On December 2, 2015 there was an office holiday party in San Bernardino. Employees were socializing and enjoying their selves. An employee and his wife enter the premises and starts shooting. At the end of the gunfire, there are 20 people shot. This paper will examine the rights of the employee to carry guns, employers’ rights to ban guns on their property and workplace safety with guns involved. The employees have the right to bear arms. Currently, there is no law that controls guns at the office. Several states have passed professed guns-at-work laws. Laws like these are usually intended to keep employees’ privileges to have concealed firearms differ in terms of their restrictions. The lobbying skills of the NRA along with other†¦show more content†¦The general-duty clause requires employers to provide each employee a place of employment free from recognized hazards that could be injurious or deadly. A similar incident happened in Oklahoma, where a group of workers who had been terminated for having firearms in their vehicles in a company parking lot. They were in violation of the company rule and argued that the policy violated their right to bear arms. The federal court there defended the employer’s action. The only reason they did because it was permissible at the time, under state law, for the company to adopt and enforce the policy (Bastible v. Weyerhaeuser Co., 437 F.3d 999 (10th Cir. 2006)). An amendment to the Oklahoma law (Okla. Stat. tit. 21,  §1290.22(B) (Supp. 2006)) enforced a restriction like that in Florida, forbidding employers from keeping the policy, and this amendment also resisted a legal challenge (Ramsey Winch Inc. v. Henry, 555 F.3d 1199 (10th Cir. 2009)). Other states barring companies from banning firearms on company property include Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. (Thelen 2009 para. 3) More states seem ready to pass laws that would ban a company’s right to forbid firearms on their property. Some of these laws offer employer’s with protection from responsibility if those employees cause injury with the weapons on the property. Other planned laws offer no protection from liability. The extent of a company’s obligation and what they should do to