The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month found that Walgreens properly exercised its rights when it fired an employee for using his handgun in defense during a robbery.
At the center of the case is Jeremy Hoven, a pharmacist employed at-will by the drug store chain in Michigan. Hoven is a lawful concealed-carry permit holder who was fired by the company in 2011 after he exchanged gunfire with an armed robber while at work.
A licensed pharmacist since 1999, Hoven was robbed at gunpoint in 2007 while working for Walgreens. After Walgreens failed to implement extra security precautions such as panic buttons at the request of Hoven, the druggist obtained a Michigan concealed-carry permit in 2008 and started going to work armed.
On May 8, 2011, two armed subjects entered his store and after one jumped the counter, pointed a gun at Hoven, and started to pull the trigger, the pharmacist retreated and fired his own handgun at the subject.
Township police Lt. Delman Lange, after reviewing surveillance video, told the local paper, “If it was me, I would have done the same thing.”
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Does the Employer have a legal obligation to provide a safe work place when you work in a store or a hospital or anywhere that this could happen? Walgreens, Big Fail! I will not go to your store any more. I wonder if this man can sue them for failing to do that and it affected his mental and physical health. I won't willingly work or patronize any place that doesn't let me protect myself. If we would all start doing that, maybe these morons would get it. The Rule of Law is dead - 2nd Amendment a pesky nuisance.
ReplyDeleteDoes the Employer have a legal obligation to provide a safe work place when you work in a store or a hospital or anywhere that this could happen?
DeleteYou would think so.
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I wonder if this man can sue them for failing to do that and it affected his mental and physical health.
Hopefully and I indeed hope he keeps going.
Just another instance PROVING that the courts in this country are OWNED by business and exist to serve them NOT society.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sir.
DeleteIt's good to know this about Walgreens.
ReplyDeleteThe chains are probably all the same.
DeleteThe chains are probably all the same.
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