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speedsix wrote:...I have never heard of an employer searching cars on the parking lot...I can see where perhaps a defense-related employer might have that strict a policy...but who can name others that actually search employees cars, either with a walk-by with a dog, or force the employee to open the vehicle so that they can search it????

Oh...they exist alright. I worked for just such a company for 17 yrs (not defense related either).

The danger is that any company (or head of a company) in Texas.... CAN (as a requirement of employment), retain the right to search.

Even if they don't now....any company strongly opposed to firearms....might use the new law as the impetus to enact the right to search (at their place of business). Will it happen, I don't know, but I am always looking ahead.

RPB wrote:

flintknapper wrote:

Right2Carry wrote:I don't see how changing the wording in the handbook will circumvent the law. If the law is clear that employees have a right to keep a firearm in their locked private vehicle then I don't see how rewriting the employee manual is going to change that.

I thought the new law once signed would prevent exactly this kind of action from employers.

It wouldn't.

BUT.....your employer (as a condition of employment) can require that they be able to inspect/search your vehicle at any time. So......you know what that leads to, right?

You could not be fired for lawfully having a weapon in your locked vehicle BUT....Texas is a "Hire at Will" State and an employer may fire you for nearly any reason (with a few exceptions).

You will simply receive your pink slip (along with some bogus reason for your firing) once it is discovered you are "carrying" a weapon in your vehicle.

or "no reason at all" if I recall correctly.

Some employers may fire someone for socks they don't like, hair parted wrong, whatever "reason" but some say it's safer not to give a reason at all.

That is correct, is it simply a "catch-all" for employers...since there is always a "reason".

Right2Carry wrote:I don't see how changing the wording in the handbook will circumvent the law. If the law is clear that employees have a right to keep a firearm in their locked private vehicle then I don't see how rewriting the employee manual is going to change that.

I thought the new law once signed would prevent exactly this kind of action from employers.

It wouldn't.

BUT.....your employer (as a condition of employment) can require that they be able to inspect/search your vehicle at any time. So......you know what that leads to, right?

You could not be fired for lawfully having a weapon in your locked vehicle BUT....Texas is a "Hire at Will" State and an employer may fire you for nearly any reason (with a few exceptions).

You will simply receive your pink slip (along with some bogus reason for your firing) once it is discovered you are "carrying" a weapon in your vehicle.