Actually, they do, if the "JC" wants to discrimiate. Why do you think most employers require a pre-employment physical? When the last Steelcase dealer I worked for went toes up, the dealer that bought the customer accounts hired some of the people. One of the warehouse guys failed his employment physical. He had a hernia. The other dealer refused to hire him.

Steve
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Yep.

A mid sized company i owned -- I inherited a small union as part of it. The whole place wasn't unionized, just one section of it. I had clandestine talks with the union President before i bought the place, so I *felt* i could work with him.

And we worked well together for a few years before he retired.

There was this guy with lung issues (heavy smoker, older)....paid dues to this union for 12 years before I got there anyways, the union president came to me and asked me "do you need to get rid of the kid"? The kid referred to this young guy who was in the union, who sucked. Milked every union protection, really caused havoc amongst customers and even employees. I said "sure".....so over a steak lunch at KC Prime..... (his treat)....he told me ....if I get 3 write-ups on the lung guy, he'd make sure 'the kid' goes away. He told me not to make stuff up but, just write up the tardy, the errors, etc that I wasn't writing up because it wasn't worth the union shit. He told me in no uncertain terms "I'm paying claims on this guy every other day it seems. " he referred to the health policy. (Health and Pension fund - partially union gravy money...)

Well, "the kid" was gone in a few months.

And the union was "unable to protect" the lung guy because the write-ups were to the letter of the union rules.

I can't speak for the Fortune 500, but that was *one* instance whre I had a front row seat to a small union shitcanning a fellow over health expenses.