Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Is this even legal?

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. plans to cut its health-care costs by forcing its employees to quit smoking -- and intends to use the savings from this and other cost-cutting programs to boost its advertising spending.

Marysville, Ohio-based Scotts is instituting the anti-smoking policy over the course of the next year, meaning existing employees will have to quit smoking or lose their jobs. The company is offering smoking cessation programs to the roughly one-third of Scotts employees who now smoke, Chairman-CEO Jim Hagedorn said.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is truly unfortunate to hear what the company is forcing employees to do due to health care costs. I hope the company would not treat employees in such a matter as they deserve better.