Employer Monitoring Employee Weight?

This whole topic of whether or not an employer should be allowed to require health statistics from their employees is one that is very controversial, considering many factors can affect numeric health without making a person unhealthy at all.

I do not believe that a person should have to report their weight to their employer, because in my industry I know very well, that weight is only a number.  It means absolutely nothing.  For instance one person could weight 240 pounds at a height of 6 feet and have a good amount of muscle with a healthy 15 percent body  fat, while another could be 240 pounds at a height of 6 feet and be at 30 percent body fat and morbidly obese. (Pictures At End) This just goes to show though, how insignificant a numeric value of weight can be.

The fact that the company is requiring the personal information from the employees under penalty of a fine for failure to provide information, is immoral in our modern society that already places too much emphasis on body image.  This blood pressure and blood sugar levels are much more reasonable in my mind as numbers that can be used to monitor the health of employees for health care plan purposes.  I believe that the company providing medical coverage to their employees has every right to be collecting health data from employee, but the information collected should be relevant and not just a number on the scale.

To summarize what I have stated here, employers should be able to collect health information from their employees, but should stick to relevant pieces of information, not simply useless scale results.

Here are the picture comparisons of 240 pounds.