{"id":45866,"date":"2026-04-08T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/45866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:42:06","slug":"nestle-is-latest-company-sued-over-worker-tobacco-use-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/45866\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 Is Latest Company Sued Over Worker Tobacco Use Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Nestl\u00e9 USA Inc. employee filed a proposed class action challenging the food manufacturer\u2019s practice of charging tobacco-using workers an extra $75 per month for health-care coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 includes a tobacco surcharge in its health plan without retroactively reimbursing the penalties paid by workers who complete a quit-smoking program, the employee said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/HohlvNestleUSAIncDocketNo126cv00947EDVaApr072026CourtDocket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complaint<\/a> filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The company also fails to properly publicize its quit-smoking program or inform workers that statements from their doctor will be considered when assessing the penalty, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Nestl\u00e9 USA Inc. employee filed a proposed class action challenging the food manufacturer\u2019s practice of charging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[22278,26579,26578,26580,199,26577],"class_list":{"0":"post-45866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nestle","8":"tag-class-actions","9":"tag-communications-to-employees","10":"tag-employee-health-benefits","11":"tag-health-insurance-coverage","12":"tag-nestle","13":"tag-tobacco-product-safety"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116369381335387109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}