WI's carry law adressed this, unfortunately it failed by one vote.
IIRC, there was specific verbage in the bill that made suitable storage in your car in a employer's parking lot legal, and overrode that portion of any employer's code of conduct or handbook policy as a requirment of employment.
IIRC the employer could also not ban car storage/carry if you used your own privately owned vehicle in the course of your job.
The original version of the bill even had specific language laying out employer liability if they banned CCW and a permited employee was ever injured or attacked in a crime on thier premises. Unfortunately, it was never taken seriously, and was probably intended from the start as a throwaway bargaining chip to get legislatiors on board with the promise of a "reasonable bill".
The upside to WI's CCW defeat is that it only failed by
one traitorous vote on a two-thirds veto-override majority, from an assemblyman who had voiciferously supported and co-sponsored the bill. In the end he felt it was more important to not weaken his party with the first gubanatorial overrride in 20-odd years. And a cush state job from the Govenor once he gets voted out next year, if he even bothers to run.
However, due to the closness of the vote, the NRA, WCCA, and the WI Pro-Gun Movment are out for blood, and hopefully several senate and assembly seats will flip over the CCW issue, and others like taxes, and we'll get an even better bill through in 2005, with more of the original CCW protections intact, enough to make the years wait worth it even.
Frankly, my attitude about carry on private property is based on two things:
- You normally can't be forced to sign away your basic human rights as a condition of employment, and self-defense is a basic human right.
- My body, clothing, and what's under it does not cease being private property just because it is momentarily located on someone else's private property. If you're a guest in my home, I cannot simply thrust my hands in your pockets and grab what I want because you are on my property. As long as what you carry does not adversely effect the external environment, it is none of anyone else's business. I think that an employer ought to be able to fire you for brandishing improperly, flashing etc. but not for carry. I feel that dismissal for carry is akin to having a Jewish or Muslim employer fire you because he suspected you came back from lunch with pork in your belly. But if you took that pork and excreeted it on the floor, or carried porkchops in your hands and swung them around and slapped people with them, it's a different story.