| Many states do not allowed genetic employment | | | | course, this is a slippery slope because nearly |
| testing, and most Americans are appalled by the | | | | 80% of all the people in America believe that |
| concept, however there are instances when it | | | | genetic employment testing should not be allowed. |
| makes a lot of sense. In the state of Arizona, | | | | Some employers believe that if they could pick |
| they were using a special additive in the fuel for | | | | certain employees for specific jobs they will get |
| gasoline and due to the toxic nature of the | | | | twice or even three times the productivity from |
| additive many of the fuel distributor employees | | | | their employee. You can imagine how the unions |
| were dying of cancer within 6 to 10 months (an | | | | feel about that concept? |
| extremely aggressive and terminal type of | | | | Should employers be allowed to give people |
| cancer). | | | | genetic tests for certain types of jobs and if the |
| Others were getting so sick they could no longer | | | | genetic testing shows that they will not be very |
| stay the job. Many of these cancers were of the | | | | good for that particular job should a company be |
| type that if someone had a genetic predisposition | | | | allowed to place them in another job within the |
| to them, they were almost certainly doomed, | | | | company? This is another question that ethics |
| while others did not have the same problem. In | | | | professors and human resource think tanks have |
| this case, should the employer be allowed to do | | | | been discussing. Still, in states like California, |
| genetic testing on each employee they hired? | | | | employers should not expect to be allowed to do |
| In such cases the court has sided with employers | | | | genetic employment testing now or in the future. |
| who deal with hazardous and toxic chemicals. Of | | | | Please consider all this. |