Yahoo! News - Quit Smoking or Quit Your Job, U.S. Company Says
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs said on Wednesday he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight or else.

A ban on tobacco use -- whether at home or at the workplace -- led four employees to quit (thought they were fired) their jobs last week at Okemos, Michigan-based Weyco Inc., which handles insurance claims.

Next on the firing line: overweight workers.

"We have to work on eating habits and getting people to exercise. But if you're obese, you're (legally) protected," Weyers said.

He has brought in an eating disorder therapist to speak to workers, provided eating coaches, created a point system for employees to earn health-related $100 bonuses and plans to offer $45 vouchers for health club memberships.

The 71-year-old Weyers, who said he has never smoked and pronounced himself in good shape thanks to daily runs, said employees' health as well as saving money on the company's own insurance claims led him to first bar smokers from being hired in 2003.

I guess I wasn't so far off when I blogged this yesterday. Glad to hear that overweight people are legally protected. What do you want to bet he finds a way to fire them anyway? What a prick.