Found this one on Fark (it's a website, I can't post the URL yet, I'm sure someone knows it). More and more, I see in our daily lives shades of 1984...and "their" intrusions into our daily lives are not getting the point across. Shit like this, not the drivel coming from the Fight House, is what makes me realize how few rights we actually have.
LANSING, Mich. -- A Michigan health care company has fired four of its employees for refusing to take a test to determine whether they smoke cigarettes.
The company enacted a new policy this month, allowing workers to be fired if they smoke, even if the smoking takes place after-hours, or at home.
The founder of Weyco Inc. said the company doesn't want to pay the higher health care costs associated with smoking.
An official of the company -- which administers health benefits -- estimated that 18 to 20 of its 200 employees were smokers when the policy was first announced in 2003. As many as 14 of them quit smoking before the policy went into effect.
On the company's Web site, it states:
Weyco Inc. is a non-smoking company that strongly supports its employees in living healthy lifestyles.
What the hell??
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