Eurofins Employee Files Would-be Class Suit Over Smoker Penalty

A federal lawsuit accuses Eurofins NSC US Inc. of mismanaging an employee wellness program that requires tobacco-using workers to pay an additional $240 per year for healthcare coverage.

The laboratory and testing company penalizes these workers without offering them a reasonable alternative standard for avoiding the charges, a Eurofins employee said in a proposed class complaint filed May 29 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The “only avenue Defendant offers to escape its surcharge is for the participant to quit for three full months,” which is the “textbook definition of a ‘subterfuge for discriminating based ...