Business owners still have to consider the implications of exposing their customers and employees to a toxin.

The feedback we get from employees has been great.

We think it is important that business owners, operators and employees let council members know how they feel.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

If a business has 60 percent of its employees who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? If schools have a lot of children who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? Are they going to have to close? Are their children going to have to be at home?