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My company knows I don't as much as log into ADP so good luck with that.
Stay relavant and there will always be a big cherry red ass for the bastards to kiss.
Third Partys aint getting shit from me, if you wana give me to a third party then I'll take my skills and code to the competition. They would love to have me.
Employers can charge workers as much as 50 percent more for health insurance if they decline to partake in voluntary programs.
But the new bill, HR 1313
Under guise of “voluntary†wellness programs, employees’ genetics could be exposed. A new bill that is quietly moving through the House would allow companies to strong-arm their employees into taking genetic tests and then sharing that data with unregulated third parties as well as the employer. Employees that resist could face penalties of thousands of dollars.
In the past, such personal information has been protected by a law called GINA, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which shields people from DNA-based discrimination. But the new bill, HR 1313, gets around this by allowing genetic testing to be part of company wellness programs.
Under HR 1313, GINA wouldn’t apply to anything voluntarily collected through wellness programs, and companies would have access to genetic data. That information would be stripped of identifiers, but in small companies, it could be fairly easy to match certain genetic profiles to specific employees.
Moreover, employers tend to hire third parties to collect and manage health data. These companies are not heavily regulated and can review genetic and other health data with identifiers. Some of the companies even sell health information to advertisers, STAT notes.
Employers can charge workers as much as 50 percent more for health insurance if they decline to partake in voluntary programs. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined last year that programs are still considered voluntary even when they lead to financial penalties in the form of higher healthcare premiums for those who don’t participate.
Those same penalties for opting out of an employer’s wellness program would apply to genetic tests under the new bill, allowing employers to as for “voluntary†genetic tests that carry financial penalties for not participating.
More: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/companies-want-employees-genetic-info-new-bill-lets-them-take-it-by-force/?comments=1
http://www.ibtimes.com/employee-genetic-tests-republican-bill-would-give-employers-access-your-info-2506422
#Health #GOP #BigBrother #Privacy #WellnessPrograms
Related: https://patrick.net/1295232/2016-09-02-workplace-wellness-programs-are-a-sham