My organization, the largest local private employer in Northeast Florida (~10k employees), instituted a new policy this year that says if you don't get a flu shot you may not report to work and if you don't report to work you are "voluntarily forfeiting" your position. How it's legal for an employer to force an employee to violate HIPAA by revealing a personal medical state I still don't quite understand. I expect at least one lawsuit this fall. .This policy also applies to contracted employees (like IT) who are onsite as little as 1 instance during their employment

 

As for fired for being a smoker:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27...09915.html

 

Or hiring discrimination based on it:

http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/06/detroit_medical_center_is_late.

 

Basically, you don't belong to you, you belong to your employer. Once the whole pot thing gets real momentum we'll have dozens of high profile cases that will inevitably take more rights away from us and give them to employer or government.

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