The employer ought to be given the benefit of the doubt here if they have acted in a reasonable way.

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Do not think you're protected by the First Amendment.

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It's hard to blame an employer for not wanting to absorb higher medical insurance costs. Why should I pay for your bad habit?

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It's not rocket science, ... If the doctor is an employee of the company, there are serious questions about the confidentiality of employees' medical data.

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The fact that companies monitor e-mail is not a secret.

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You can't help but sympathize with an employer who's trying to improve the bottom line, but allowing employers to take over everyone's private life to improve the bottom line is just not legitimate.

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You may not know it, but it doesn't mean it's not happening.

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Surcharges are the first step down a road that America may not want to travel. Surcharges sound nice when you talk about smokers because everyone hates smokers. But what about all the other bad habits that people have?

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What we're seeing is employers who are trying to find out people who might be sick in the future, who might run up the company's medical bills, and (efforts) to screen them out, even though the company knows they can do the job perfectly well.

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