Spy on Employees
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THE WALLS HAVE EYES page 4 of 5 | |||||
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The Many Ways Bosses Spy on Employees |
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Jennifer Vogel | |||
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But there's something even more frightening on the horizon -- genetic testing.
While screening employees or job applicants for predisposition to costly
diseases isn't yet widespread (probably because the testing is so pricey)
there is already evidence, according to Wendy McGoodwin, Executive Director
of the Council for
Responsive Genetics, of this kind of thinking. McGoodwin tells the story of
a woman who was fired because the company she worked for found out that her
mother had had Huntington's disease. "They were concerned about the cost of
providing insurance to this woman," says McGoodwin. "She did not have
Huntington's. They didn't even know if she had the gene that causes
Huntington's."
Nobody likes to be spied on. And the invasiveness of these practices hasn't been missed by the American public. A poll by Time magazine a few years ago found that 95 percent of Americans believe employers should not be allowed to listen in on phone conversations; 67 percent thought employers should not have the power to check the credit history of job applicants; 56 percent did not think employers should be able to scan work areas with video cameras. The trouble is, it's risky to do battle when the penalty could be your job. "If someone has to choose between ripping out a camera and feeding their kids," says Maltby, "what choice to do they have? They keep putting food on the table and live with the camera." |
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