Nanny State vs. Nanny State PING!
Nanny State vs. Nanny State PING!
Where I work one now must give a health reason when calling in sick. The company insists in order to protect wellness in certain groups.
yessir the healthcare/industrial complex is trapping us!
Its all about getting paid!!!!
My sister works for an insurance company. They do this. If she participates, she gets 10% off her premiums. So, she does it. There are also plans that give “awards” for the wellness programs.
Seems they are now targeting the elder workers who smoke.
When I worked for a corp, most of the sickos were the young moms and usual slackers. The smokers just did their jobs and felt happy.
This is probably the first time I have supported the EEOC.
When Obamacare was passed, Democrats poo-poo conservatives when they said it would be used to force people to do things against their will and would penalize them if they didn’t.
Companies that are obeying the law are violating the law. Enough to put a grin on any bureaucrat’s face.
Do ‘Wellness’ programs give rewards to gays for abstaining from unsafe sex practices which spread degradation and disease?
Yeah. I didn’t THINK so.
Chip away at this unconstitutional POS until it becomes “No Child Left Behind”...
If it is truly voluntary, with no consequences other than higher insurance premiums, then I think the EEOC should pound sand.
But, if people are truly being fired for not participating, then the employers may have a problem. But, Congress will have to pass legislation making that an unacceptable reason for termination.
My atate is at-will. Neither employee or employer has to give a reason for termination. Only the “protected” factors are not allowed: race, sex, etc. if you are a white male,even those are effectively nullified.
Thatl leaves only one thing: refusing to do something illegal.
Great post in a great thread. Totalitarianism/socialism/fascism with a not-so-happy-face BUMP! Monitoring your “wellness” ALERT!
It is a shameful day when well-intentioned and well-informed reliance on regulations, driven by the good will of employers to offer positive, innovative programs to their employees, can result in litigation,” Engler wrote on behalf of Business Roundtable....
Hey, you Fascist POS.
You do not have the right to force people to buy a product they may not ever use and oay for Shiite that is against their religious conscience.
Further, your “Wellness” pogrom is discriminatory and unfairly penalizes people for using a perfectly legal and taxed product.
Speaking of taxed: Is your tax, under Justice Roberts definition, superior to all other taxed and non mandated but still, very stratified markets of all other products produced, sold and consumed or simply left to expire, having never been used?
Say it...”My tax is superior to all other products and services....”
I know you can...
But they're not. If they were "offering" it, then that would be a plus. They're not "offering" it, they're punishing you for not taking it.
My company started these wellness programs 3 years ago. For the last two years the “free” biometric screening has been “offered”, but if you don’t partake you get a surcharge to the next year’s insurance. $600 this year, up from I think $300 last year.
Healthcare conglomerates are saying that invasive programs like forcing workers to report what they are ill with, are FOR THE GOOD OR SAFETY OF THE PATIENTS, which has been healthcare’s go to excuse to dismiss all sorts of indignities.