Reply #4: This is a cost of doing business, and can be chargd to the taxpayers.

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As for health insurance, there are varying laws that were supposed to protect workers who got sick from retaliation by their employers for increasing the cost of healthcare. There are many and varied ways to punish workers for using their "benefits". Someone who works in Human resources shoulkd be able to tell you how it works. There are national conferences on these things for HR big shots every year, on health care family leave, etc, explaining how to turn these laws into laws that favor the company and penalize the worker for having the nerve to actually use them.

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