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They can't require things that have a direct impact on the employee's private life, so contraceptives and anti-psychotic drugs are out. They can't require thin
by knz42 6y ago
They can't require things that have a direct impact on the employee's private life, so contraceptives and anti-psychotic drugs are out.
They can't require things that have unknown medical impact, so random pills out.
(However, some food items can be mandatory. For example if you're a sporter, you can be required by your employer to take certain supplements.)
- mc32 6y agoWhat about requiring exercise or fluorinated water? Those neither invade privacy and improve things for people and the company.
- sokoloff 6y agoThe military and sports teams certainly mandate exercise (explicitly in the military's case and at least implicitly but very likely explicitly for sports teams). Military pilots are also issued "go pills" (dextroamphetamine) for long combat and long single-pilot transit sorties.
- mc32 6y agoThe military is quite different. You more or less, in colloquial terms, belong to the government who promises to be a good guardian. There isn’t much you can say ‘No’ to without risking a discharge or courts martial.
- tomjen3 6y agoThere was a case her in Denmark (which, normally, have much stronger employment laws than the US) where it turned out that a company could require its workers to exercise (and they were computer programmers, so it wasn't directly related to their job) provided that it happened in working hours.
- triceratops 6y ago> requiring exercise I'm sure you could, if you paid the employee for it. > fluorinated water How would anyone verify that? Seems like the kind of thing you'd have to go to court to find out if it's legal.