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Article: A-B loses hidden camera case; may rehire workers.(Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.)
- Article from:
- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- July 11, 2005
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AP--Beer maker Anheuser-Busch Cos. may have to reinstate several employees fired for using illegal drugs at work because the company used hidden cameras without informing the employees' union, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The brewer fired five workers in 1998 after hidden cameras showed them smoking marijuana in an area where employees sometimes take breaks at one of its St. Louis brewing facilities.
Four additional workers were suspended for leaving their work areas. Seven others, observed sleeping or urinating on the building's roof, had to sign "last-chance" agreements saying they could be fired from their posts for any further violation of ...