They should tell them what to eat too, while they are at it. The employees would be healthier if they stuck to a diet strictly controlled by their employer.
Freedom is dead.
Freedom died when the rest of us had to pick up the cost for irresponsible behavior of others.
“They should tell them what to eat too, while they are at it. The employees would be healthier if they stuck to a diet strictly controlled by their employer.”
Actually, in a perverse way, that might be helpful since 90% of the nurses in most hospitals look like Rosie O’Donnell or Oprah Winfrey! Never understood how “healthcare professionals” are seldom “healthy looking.” The companies who make “scrubs” must be a subsidiary of Ahmed the Tentmaker.
See my post above. They DO know what you eat.
Sadly, most will say “Well, it’s for our own good. Besides, President Obama has our interests at heart. He loves us so much!” And that’s just the liberals.
What horsecrap. This IS what freedom looks like. The hospital is free to set the terms of employment, and every employee is free to determine whether or not to work there.
Get the government out of the picture and the free market will determine whether or not this is a sustainable way to run a healthcare business. If the hospital’s policy is so restrictive that no one wants to work there, then the policy will have to be changed or the hospital will go out of business. Let the marketplace decide.
The hospital is equally free to hire ONLY smokers if it wanted to - why is no one doing that, do you think?
I don’t smoke and never have but if they want to direct my actions 24/7 they damn well better pay me for 24/7 work.