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Employers start firing employees who test positive for certain prescription drugs

3/7/2011 - Companies across the United States have started including some prescription drugs in random employee drug tests, and firing workers who test positive. For example, Sue Bates lost her job of 22 years as an assembly line worker at Dura Automotive Systems after she tested positive for hyrdrocodone,...

Big Pharma to begin microchipping drugs

11/9/2010 - The age of pharmaceutical microchipping is now upon us. Novartis AG, one of the largest drug companies in the world, has announced a plan to begin embedding microchips in medications to create "smart pill" technology. The microchip technology is being licensed from Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City,...

Why U.S. Companies Are Broke: Health Care Costs Rising Another 9 Percent in 2010

11/24/2009 - Businesses in the United States are expected to spend 9 percent more on health care in 2010 than they did in 2009, according to an annual survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to previous surveys, the cost of health care increased by 9.9 percent between 2007 and 2008, then another...

Proposed law would require employers to pay workers for sick time off would promote swine flu pandemic

11/5/2009 - It sounds good at first: When employers send sick workers home so they don't spread swine flu around the work environment, they must still pay those workers for the full day's work. The idea behind this bill is that many workers can't afford being sent home without pay, and therefore the employer must...

Employers Consider Bold New Ways to Halt Smoking Among Workers

1/1/2009 - Confronted with rising health care costs, employers across the United States are trying out new and creative ways to get their employees to cut out a behavior that may strain the health system more than any other: smoking. "We're talking about ending an epidemic. This is a global pandemic," Centers...

Smokers pose huge burden on employers with extra sick days and lower productivity

5/2/2007 - Separate studies on two continents have concluded smoking is associated with decreased productivity on the job, both in the civilian and military sectors. The studies were published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Tobacco Control. "In both the civilian and military sectors, smoking has been...

Companies turn to in-house health clinics to control skyrocketing health care costs

1/20/2007 - According to a recent study, the economic strain levied on employers in the U.S. from employee healthcare costs is growing exponentially, leaving many employers scrambling to find alternatives to their present healthcare models. The study, entitled “Reducing Corporate Healthcare Costs,” released...

Employers increasingly tapping medical tourism for cost savings

11/6/2006 - About 500,000 Americans traveled overseas last year to undergo surgeries that cost two to three times more in the United States, according to the National Coalition on Health Care. Medical tourism has taken off in the last few years, with American employer-sponsored health insurance premiums skyrocketing...

Health care costs are bankrupting employers, employees, surveys find

10/27/2006 - Americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the health insurance costs of the employer-sponsored health care system, according to the annual Health Confidence Survey. The survey found that overall dissatisfaction with health insurance costs increased from 33 percent last year to 52 percent,...

Policies on Wellness Impact Employee Health, Bottom Line (press release)

7/5/2006 - Start-up data from an innovative $1 million demonstration project being conducted in Western New York suggests that if the organization you work for is concerned with wellness, it may effect how healthy you are. The finding is the first outcome from the Western New York Wellness Works (WNYWW) project,...

Why corporate America should drop its dress code and exchange business suits for comfortable clothing

5/28/2005 - Did you ever wonder about the business suit? It is the uniform of the business community, and if you're wearing one, it's supposed to imply that you know what you're talking about. I've worn business suits in the past, but I despise doing so, for a number of reasons. Business suits take away the...

Skyrocketing health care costs make U.S. employers non-competitive in the global marketplace

8/8/2004 - Skyrocketing health insurance costs are heavily impacting employers in the United States. Now, for the first time, medical benefits to employees has become the most expensive benefit paid by employers, according to a new report issued by the Employment Policy Foundation. The cost of health care for...

More Employees Unable To Receive Health Insurance Coverage Through Their Employers; Prevention, Not Disease Treatment, Is The Answer

8/6/2004 - A new study from the Washington, D.C. based Center for Studying Health System Change has revealed that 9 million Americans no longer have health insurance coverage through their employers compared to those who received coverage in 2001. In other words, employers' ability to provide health insurance...

Employers must take on some responsibility for employees' health in order to prevent obesity and chronic disease

8/5/2004 - Ever thought about your workplace as being somewhere that you could get fit and lose weight? Most people don't, given that traditional offices are cubicles with artificial light that don't encourage physical movement other than dashing to the next meeting. But some companies, such as Sprint, are starting...

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