The future of your job could lie in your genes—along with financial penalties, loss of privacy and a compulsory wellness program.
It may sound futuristic, but it could end up being in your present if the Republican Congress has its way.
The New York Times reports that HR 1313, known as the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, proposed by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC and chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, would not only let employers require genetic testing of employees and their families when the testing is part of a workplace wellness program, it would also allow them to penalize any employees who decline to participate in that program.
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