HomeDepot anti-gun policy

[GreenhawK]

Considering that the founder of Home Depot was going around on several radio shows trashing Obama's regulatory and other economic policies. He seemed to be a pretty conservative guy.

Alabama has a law that is being brought up in the next session of congress that will make it illegal to not allow employees to carry firearms to work. I don't think that they have to allow you to carry inside, but they must allow you to keep it in your car on the property. I thought it was kind of a pointless law until reading about this.

 

[bruno670]

Meijer Thrifty Acres here in the midwest have the same policy. During the hiring process you must sign a form that states that you will not carry any weapon on their property, working or not. If found you will be terminated, no ifs, ands, or buts!
On another note, they do not frown on customers from carrying concealed or open.

 

[BluesStringer]

Considering that the founder of Home Depot was going around on several radio shows trashing Obama's regulatory and other economic policies. He seemed to be a pretty conservative guy.

Alabama has a law that is being brought up in the next session of congress that will make it illegal to not allow employees to carry firearms to work. I don't think that they have to allow you to carry inside, but they must allow you to keep it in your car on the property. I thought it was kind of a pointless law until reading about this.

Howdy neighbor! Yeah, the law wouldn't force businesses to allow weapons inside, but it would protect permit holders from being fired, or even just harassed, for leaving it in their cars.

I don''t know if you're into talk radio at all, but the idiot morning show guy on WVNN, Dale Jackson, speaks out against the law every chance he gets. The station's down there in Athens. Maybe you could drop by and set his mind right?

:biggrin:

Blues

 

[Kalashnikova]

Why can a person's place of employment dictate what an employee can or cannot keep in THEIR vehicle?

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This is my whole point of this post. It seems this corporation feels like they can also dictate how I live my life when not at work. Should one lose their Constitutional rights to be employed?

 

[BluesStringer]

This is my whole point of this post. It seems this corporation feels like they can also dictate how I live my life when not at work. Do I lose my Constitutional rights to be employed?

I'm all for your state passing a law protecting you if/when you leave your weapon in your car while on their premises, but a point of clarification: You have no "right" to be employed, constitutional or otherwise.

Blues

 

[Stan45]

This last Saturday I heard that an employee was being terminated for keeping a firearm in his vehicle while at work.

If it was concealed not even your hair dresser would know. Chalk this up as a learning experience.

 

[nickyg]

Why would an employee even tell his/her employer that they have a firearm in their car? Would you tell them that you have a coffee cup, a jack, a tire iron, a mini compressor, bottles of spring water, and ingredients for a bomb in there? Are you freaking kidding me? Regardless of whatever state, when your hired and willfully sign the booklet of company policies, you go by their rules or promptly take your place on the unemployment line.

 

[DougG]

I work for a company that does not allow me to carry at work. I do keep a gun locked up in my car. The home office is in MA and they do have a different outlook than Texas.

 

[S&W645]

Why would an employee even tell his/her employer that they have a firearm in their car? Would you tell them that you have a coffee cup, a jack, a tire iron, a mini compressor, bottles of spring water, and ingredients for a bomb in there? Are you freaking kidding me? Regardless of whatever state, when your hired and willfully sign the booklet of company policies, you go by their rules or promptly take your place on the unemployment line.

Not true. If their policy violates state law/federal law, you go to court. Statutes of Florida provide that:

(b) No public or private employer may violate the privacy rights of a customer, employee, or invitee by verbal or written inquiry regarding the presence of a firearm inside or locked to a private motor vehicle in a parking lot or by an actual search of a private motor vehicle in a parking lot to ascertain the presence of a firearm within the vehicle. Further, no public or private employer may take any action against a customer, employee, or invitee based upon verbal or written statements of any party concerning possession of a firearm stored inside a private motor vehicle in a parking lot for lawful purposes. A search of a private motor vehicle in the parking lot of a public or private employer to ascertain the presence of a firearm within the vehicle may only be conducted by on-duty law enforcement personnel, based upon due process and must comply with constitutional protections.
(c) No public or private employer shall condition employment upon either:
1. The fact that an employee or prospective employee holds or does not hold a license issued pursuant to s. 790.06; or
2. Any agreement by an employee or a prospective employee that prohibits an employee from keeping a legal firearm locked inside or locked to a private motor vehicle in a parking lot when such firearm is kept for lawful purposes.
(d) No public or private employer shall prohibit or attempt to prevent any customer, employee, or invitee from entering the parking lot of the employer’s place of business because the customer’s, employee’s, or invitee’s private motor vehicle contains a legal firearm being carried for lawful purposes, that is out of sight within the customer’s, employee’s, or invitee’s private motor vehicle.

Employers that violate these laws can face lawsuits from the employee and the AG of the State of Florida.

 

[Danmc]

I work at a HomeDepot in New Mexico, an open carry state. This last Saturday I heard that an employee was being terminated for keeping a firearm in his vehicle while at work. Now we have been "advised" that not only are we not allowed to keep firearms in our vehicles while on the clock but no associate can carry open or conceal carry in the store, even if they have a permit, on their day off if they come shop at HomeDepot. Also, associates can not leave a firearm in the vehicle while shopping at HomeDepot on their day off, to do so will result in termination.

This is why I park off site. You want to fire me for having a gun in my vehicle while my vehicle is parked at home because I decided to walk to work, then get out the check book because you're going to get sued and i will win.

 

[EasyBakeGunClub]

Call your state legislators. Many states are finally passing laws saying that employers cannot forbid you from keeping your firearm in your car as it's an infringement on your state sanctioned rights outside of work.

See, when they say you can't carry inside of work, that's fine. Saying you can't store your firearm in your car means they are telling you that you cannot carry at all.

Most people leave the house, drive to work, go to lunch, go back to work, do errands and go home. Seriously, call your State Representative, State Senator, and Governors office.

 

[jeff martin]

Class action lawsuit!!

What you have in your personal vehicle is none of their buisiness!! On you off days you are a customer not subject to company policy!

 

[JLeòdhas]

I have been boycotting the **** Depot for years, now I have another reason to.

 

[tricolordad]

I take my kids to Home Depot every month for the kids workshop. Build little boxes, birdhouses, key holders...nobody has ever mentioned my STI. Even the managers taking pictures have to have noticed when they look at the pictures. I've been doing it for 8 months now. Same gun every time.

 

[BC1]

Haven't seen any anti-gun signs or activity in NYS Hudson valley HD stores.

 

[mmckee1952]

It’s a shame he got terminated, but he, like all of us, have to obey certain rules if we accept a job and take their money and understand what is required. If he didn’t accept their job requirement rules he should have quit, now he has a blemish on his work record.

 

[eagleks]

And they will know you have a gun in the trunk of your car...... how ?

 

[Dunewolf]

simple - friend you work with tells another friend who reports you, or someone overhears you as you talk to your friend, or someone who hates you reports you and they call the cops to search your car..
any number of ways to find out - and fire you..
I was fired from Blockbuster for carrying a pocket knife while visiting on my day off, I wasn't working but it counted as being on company property with a "weapon" (back in 99)
I never told them about the Beretta I carried in my backpack..

 

[mojoman]

That's why I carry conceal in there they never know.

 

[Javy]

Without job, no home, no security. No family. You have to keep your job to have a decent home, a decent neighborhood, a decent food and a decent security. So follow instructions if they fire you your family will be destroyed...