Let’s Have Your Take On This
Any employer should have the right to only hire people with red pussy hairs. On their chin, even.
Or only hire people who smoke.
I have the right to think that such employers are assholes and not patronize their joint. Or work there.Posted by Oink
01/26/2005 at 07:45 AM
I’ve had to deal with Weyco before on a personal basis. They are probably one of the most anal-retentive, if not THE most anal-retentive, companies on this planet!
If a corporation wants low claims on their Group Health Insurance Plan they just don’t hire people over 40 years of age, exactly like large corporations do now. Group Health Plans make life hell for fired Baby Boomers.
Also they just fire the guy with the wife with cancer. Because their premiums are adjusted to the claims experience of the group. I have seen employees get together and “Vote” to fire the “sick” guy because he is making everybodies premiums go up.
Here in Michigan if you become diagnosed you better call your boss, “Sir.” Because he can fire you and put you to COBRA
(Snake Bite) for insurance termination. Group Health Employee Plans - what a stoopid way to organize something as important as health insurance. Never get Individual Health Insurance because you can’t be singled out for termination for reasons other than non-payment of premium. That is way too much security for most fruitcakes.
President Bush says, “Own your home, own your health insurance and own a piece of your retirement (Personal Savings Accounts or PSA).”
But he also says, “You misunderestimate me.”
Posted by Nanook
01/26/2005 at 09:29 AM
I think a private company should be able to have any hiring policy they want.
What pisses me off in this case though is if they targeted any other group .gov and the MSM would be all over their asses. What if they had a written policy against hiring women who could still bare children (or had them all ready)?
Posted by mt
01/26/2005 at 04:50 PM
MT: NOW we’re getting somewhere!!! What lines will be drawn and who will draw them? Who defines “discrimination?”
What IS “discrimination” in a pure libertarian society? Does it exist?
mt: It’s sorta happened already. I’m too lazy to google it, but a company had one job that subjected workers to a substance that caused birth defects. Also, it paid better. The company refused to allow women without tubal ligations to work there.
The got sued. Of course they would have gotten sued for birth defects too.
Didn’t I see a description somewhere of a TV movie celebrating these women’s courage? Not asisnine stupidity—courage.Posted by Oink
01/26/2005 at 05:12 PM
I’d be happy with no lines being drawn. I should be able to hire and fire for any reason I want.
Oink: Yes, but they got sued and, I bet, their name trashed in the news. This company will get a pass because they targeted smokers.
Posted by mt
01/26/2005 at 05:52 PM
I went to the companies website and clicked on their partners link, and my company was the only company they listed, figures.
They listed our “short term medical” and our “student health insurance.” I have never enrolled anybody into either program because our Individual Medical (IM) is the best product on the market. Who would enroll someone on a “short term” health insurance because if they get cancer the client has a termination date staring them in the face.
I don’t think employers should cancel employees health insurance and dump them on the backs of the tax payers. Let’s hold the Employee Health Plans feet to the fire and make them pay the claims of employees health care expenses and outlaw the COBRA cancelation policy that now is in effect.
After all the Employer Health Plans collect premiums for years before the employee gets too sick to work. If we made companies pay the claims of sick employees we would get rid of employee health insurance in the blink of an eye.
Of course everybody else in America thinks it’s fine that employers terminate sick employees. I just think it’s wrong to dump Group Health Insurance company liabilities on the back of tax payers.
I’m waiting for the day when one person says, “Ya, it sucks that employee health insurance is cancelled when an employee gets too sick to remain eligible for coverage.” Or firing a sick employee because he has cancer and is making the companies premiums go up. After all, today the employers are selling the insurance to their employees. It is not free anymore.
Selling insurance to employees and the benefit directors are not licensed.
Posted by Nanook
01/26/2005 at 09:31 PM
I don’t have a problem with their policy...as long as I have the chance to opt out of the group health coverage. Funny thing is that I have been to the dr 0 times in the last 10 years, and all the non-smokers at my previous place of employment go on a regular basis with one ailment after another. So who is costing us more?
If they want to play this game, then I want it made illegal for all these fat-ass morons in McDonald’s ordering a Big Mac and supersize fries...with a Diet fucking Coke? Can somebody explain what motivates a 5’2”, 225lbs fucktard moron like that?
I also want it made illegal for ultra-white people to sunbathe; orientals to drive...you get the idea…
01/26/2005 at 11:38 PM
