I read an interesting comment in an article about the health care legislation in the news in November regarding discrimination. The writer noted that if a company wanted to fire someone who was a smoker or who was obese, they could. Discrimination-which is what this would be-laws do not cover every category or reason for being fired. The law only prohibits discrimination based on "age, sex, race and religion". Some smokers or over weight employees have sued but all have lost.
(Source: The Record on 11/22/10. Title of article and author unknown to me)
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