He corrected himself. Employers cannot ask woman for medical records at will.
. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a good explanation, thanks for keeping me from needing to dig into > this. I trust you for the particulars. I'd like to add as a female that > there is no way in hell I'd go through this now, even as an older woman > who's pretty much comfortable in my own skin, and when I was 20 I literally > would rather have put a fork in my eye than explain to my male employer > that I was getting big honking blood clots in my blood flow or whatever. > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Because AZ is an at-will work state, you can be fired at any time for any >> reason. >> >> Wearing blue today? Fired. Don't like Tim Tebow? Fired. >> >> Don't want to give your medical records to your employer? This is normally >> covered under other employment laws as a no-no for employers, a "you can't >> go there" topic. But this bill would expressly grant the employer the right >> to ask this question, but ONLY of women, and ONLY on the issue of >> contraceptives and (as written) not even if you have insurance, but just >> because they want to know. >> >> And based on your answer, or your refusal to answer, you can obviously be >> fired. >> >> So although it seems a little convoluted and ridiculous to imagine an >> employer doing just that, someone pressured the legislature (the judicial >> committee, actually) to put this precisely worded language INTO a bill, and >> change the bill from a bill about marital assets to one about employer >> access to health records. Imagining the kind of person that wants access to >> that information easily leads to imagining that person using that >> information. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
