Okay. I missed this sentence:
"Several companies that SHRM interviewed said they have programs in place to help employees with specific health issues like diabetes or asthma."
These two groups, and I do have asthma as do all my relatives from childhood, have some specific demands to avoid illness. Some attacks are just unavoidable.
How on earth will they penalize asthmatics who can lose work time due to attacks. All the steroid sprays, antihistamines, targeted meds like singulair, inhalers, flu shots, clean air in the world will not stop an attack. They happen. Just catch a cold.
What next, fire the genetically predisposed?
That's right - it's the God-given right to run one's business in whatever way the Petty Tyrant sees fit.
Unless the company raised wages to 168/40 times the before-revision rate, the company has no right to dictate or punish off-duty behavior. None. If the company wants to control behavior during off-duty time, they will have to make it on-duty time and compensate its employees.
"How on earth will they penalize asthmatics who can lose work time due to attacks. All the steroid sprays, antihistamines, targeted meds like singulair, inhalers, flu shots, clean air in the world will not stop an attack. They happen. Just catch a cold.
What next, fire the genetically predisposed?"
Sure, why not. Just don't hire, or fire existing employees, who have any sort of pre-existing medical condition that might cost their medical insurer or result in a few more sick days.
This guy's within his rights, but that doesn't make him any less of a busybody fascist.