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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by Spooky23 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:14PM (#16654248)
Because the way our laws protect protected classes make it trivial to hustle employers.

I’ve been sued and served with human rights complaints for firing a sleeping employee (I wasn’t checking on the sleep/wake status of employees not in protected classes) and for allegedly terminating an employee because of their protected substance abuse issues.

It’s an incredibly time consuming, expensive and stressful process.

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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by mathgladiator on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:39PM (#16654381)
Wait, now I have to Google protected substance abuse issues. How is this a thing?
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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by futhey on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:41PM (#16654661)
Speculating but addiction is a disease, and corporate HR usually terminates for something like refusing to attend treatment / etc.
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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by Spooky23 on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:05AM (#16658255)
Good intentions and problematic incentives.

Medical conditions give you certain protections for good reason -- otherwise employers would just fire employees with cancer to keep insurance rates down.

99/100 these things are good, but it takes a couple of jerks to make life miserable for all.

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