According to today's NY Times, the Borgata Casino has ordered its waitstaff not to gain weight. As if that isn't a heinous policy enough, this line stood out for me:
"Borgata officials refused to allow cocktail servers to be interviewed Thursday..."
I think what's going on here is endemic to many employment situations. Your employer gets to own your body (see, eg, above), your health (see, eg, insurance), your privacy (see, eg, drug tests, Internet logs), your right to expression (see, eg, above). It's time to think long and hard about how much control over their employees' lives employers really should have. How much should we really expect employees to give up in order to be able to make a living? We have Constitutional protections against the government to take this kind of control over individual autonomy; it's time to bind private parties to them as well.