Baylor Health Care System has rescinded more than 1 out of 6 job offers since it has implemented its policy of not hiring smokers, according to Workforce.
Baylor is one of the 4 percent of companies that refused to hire tobacco users, according to the 2013 Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care of 583 employers by consultancy Towers Watson & Co. and the National Business Group on Health. It has rescinded 69 out of 400 job offers after screening for nicotine.
Baylor became a smoke-free campus in 2011. The system also began charging the less than 10 percent of employees who smoke $25 more per pay period–$625 a year—for health insurance, Becky Hall, vice president of health wellness, told the magazine.
