The fight against hazardous and intrusive Wellness plans is going national. But it started here! Please join me in supporting this national petition to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Sign and share at the link below: Lets end hazardous and intrusive workplace wellness programs. Sign below if you feel that Secretary Sebelius should allow only programs likely to benefit employees rather than harm them, and respect them rather than demean them. Specifically: (1) Any programs NOT in accordance with guidelines must disclose both potential hazards and side deals with vendors and drug companies to employees AND allow employees the chance to opt out of such programs but keep their incentive or avoid their penalty; (2) Employers, vendors and brokers that fail to disclose these hazards must be fined, and the collected fines returned to employees in that workplace who as a group are victimized by these programs (3) Wellness programs may only demean employees and/or invade their privacy if there is a compelling clinical benefit established in the medical literature We feel that the simple requirement of disclosure, with the threat of fines, will put the well back in wellness, and spur corporations to make these programs much more attractive to employees. If not, employees will at least get to automatically earn their incentive, avoid any penalty, and share in the collected fines. https://change.org/petitions/secretary-sebelius-end-hazardous-and-intrusive-workplace-wellness-programs
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:04:16 +0000