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It's been a while so it's time for a pole!
So brus, should employers be allowed to pay more money to employees who are healthier, maybe because they are not fat lazy jims or not taking lots of sick days, and not coughing a spluttering around their workplace all the time spreading their foul sicknesses, and don't smoke or have benders?
Maybe the healthy workers could get paid bonuses based on their health stats and points gained through the year (or not loosed by being off sick). Sounds fair to me, especially around the being a fat john!! It may just encourage people to get their shit into gear if they know there's a juicy (and healthy) carrot to be munched on.
Unfortunately you can't dock people for being unhealthy scum but let's give bonuses to the fit ones because, come on, they are the people truly contributing within their workplace!!
Thin bus drivers awarded higher salaries
November 4, 2010 - 7:23AM
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/thin-bus-drivers-awarded-higher-salaries-20101104-17ed1.html
Thin bus drivers deserve higher salaries than their overweight colleagues, a Lithuanian transport company decided in an unconventional move to promote healthy lifestyles slammed by trade unions.
"Over a hundred bus drivers were weighed to calculate their body mass index," Elena Diniene, head of a local trade union in the northern city of Siauliai, said.
She explained that body mass index [BMI] is one of the criteria in a system of points that are decisive in salary hikes. A driver's health profile and blood pressure are among the other factors considered in determining pay rises, she said.
We cannot call it nothing other than a mockery. If they [the company] do not reconsider we will appeal to the courts," Diniene added.
"We just wanted to promote a health lifestyle," Vilius Lauzikas, director of Busturas, the transport company in question, told the Siauliu Krastas daily.
Lithuania's largest circulation daily Lietuvos Rytas ironically noted that the new rules mean that "drivers at work will feel like they're competing in a beauty pageant".
So brus, should employers be allowed to pay more money to employees who are healthier, maybe because they are not fat lazy jims or not taking lots of sick days, and not coughing a spluttering around their workplace all the time spreading their foul sicknesses, and don't smoke or have benders?
Maybe the healthy workers could get paid bonuses based on their health stats and points gained through the year (or not loosed by being off sick). Sounds fair to me, especially around the being a fat john!! It may just encourage people to get their shit into gear if they know there's a juicy (and healthy) carrot to be munched on.
Unfortunately you can't dock people for being unhealthy scum but let's give bonuses to the fit ones because, come on, they are the people truly contributing within their workplace!!
Thin bus drivers awarded higher salaries
November 4, 2010 - 7:23AM
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/thin-bus-drivers-awarded-higher-salaries-20101104-17ed1.html
Thin bus drivers deserve higher salaries than their overweight colleagues, a Lithuanian transport company decided in an unconventional move to promote healthy lifestyles slammed by trade unions.
"Over a hundred bus drivers were weighed to calculate their body mass index," Elena Diniene, head of a local trade union in the northern city of Siauliai, said.
She explained that body mass index [BMI] is one of the criteria in a system of points that are decisive in salary hikes. A driver's health profile and blood pressure are among the other factors considered in determining pay rises, she said.
We cannot call it nothing other than a mockery. If they [the company] do not reconsider we will appeal to the courts," Diniene added.
"We just wanted to promote a health lifestyle," Vilius Lauzikas, director of Busturas, the transport company in question, told the Siauliu Krastas daily.
Lithuania's largest circulation daily Lietuvos Rytas ironically noted that the new rules mean that "drivers at work will feel like they're competing in a beauty pageant".