Imagine HR having to do this: Line up employees every morning and have them submit to a breathalyzer test before reporting to work to make sure they’re sober.
Ridiculous? Maybe, but it’s being considered “down under.”
Politicians in Australia are supporting a proposal to require members of parliament (MPs) to take a breath test before voting on any bills.
Several MPs are supporting the proposal after a state parliamentarian resigned his post for pushing a colleague after a Christmas party.
The same MP, Andrew Fraser, was suspended from the New South Wales parliament in 2005 after chasing a minister around the chamber and grabbing him by the shirt before being restrained.
In September, as HRB told you, state police minister Matt Brown was sacked after allegedly dancing in his underpants on a sofa at a drunken post-budget party in his office.
“If you are going to have breathalyzers for people driving cranes, you should have breathalyzers for people writing laws,” Green Party MP John Kaye told The Daily Telegraph.
The Speaker and opposition leader have also supported the idea.
The Telegraph editorialized, “If our politicians are drunk on the job, we’ve a right to know.”
