Employees urged to get fit

August

Who cares more about your health than your employer? When you take a sick day, who misses you most? Your employer wants you to stop smoking, lose weight and manage your diabetes. Why?

It comes down to $$$$.

A story in the Associated Press may help shed some light. The story is about how Alabama has told its employees to lose weight or pay $25 per month for health insurance that is otherwise free.

Read the story, written by Phillip Rawls, by clicking HERE.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am by Candice Ferrette. Print This Post | Email This Post

It is a condition of your use of the comment features associated with the blogs that you do not: Use the site to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law. You alone are responsible for the material you post or send. Refer to the Terms of Service.

To Your Health

A blog about health and healthy living