I don't believe it. Another person on a conservative board who believes in integrity and personal responsibility.
Puleeeeeeze. :-)
The only issue here is whether or not an employee can be coerced into voluntarily surrendering his or her most private information.
My sense of integrity and personal responsibility tells me these are not the kind of employers with whom I would want to shake hands. I might give them a certain ungentlemanly finger salute though.
They should find a different way to solve their absenteeism costs.
I would see to it that I had a substantial file of fraud on quite a number of employees, then in one fell swoop I would fire them all at the same time on the same date.
If that didn't awaken the other employees I would repeat it until I had a solid and reliable employee base from which to operate my business.
The last thing I would want to do is open my company up to a possible civil suit for a supervisor revealing confidential medical information about an employee.