• The HR Specialist - Print Newsletter
  • HR Specialist: Employment Law
  • The HR Weekly

Wellness programs: Does your health-risk questionnaire violate the new genetic-bias law?

12/04/2009

It’s time to take a fresh look at the health questionnaires you hand out to employees as part of your wellness program. New federal regulations that prohibit discrimination against people with congenital medical conditions mean employers and health benefits providers must immediately review health risk assessments (HRAs) to make sure they don’t ask employees to reveal protected information.

Login


Your subscription includes:
  • checkmarkAsk the Attorney: Answers to your HR legal questions
  • checkmarkCompliance Guidance: Access to 7,000 HR news articles, updated daily, sorted by state
  • checkmarkState-by-State: Summaries of HR laws in all 50 states
  • checkmarkManager's Training Library: a treasure trove of printable training guides
  • checkmarkMemos to Managers for simple staff training
  • checkmarkThe Hiring Toolkit: Job descriptions, interview questions & exemption tests for 200+ positions
  • checkmarkWebinar of the Week: Train instantly with recent recordings
  • checkmarkSample Policies, Weekly Podcasts, Q&As and much, much more ...