Hightower Lowdown

More and more bosses are insisting that they have the right to monitor and regulate the activities of employees off the job, even perfectly legal activities. Howard Weyers is one such boss. He's honcho of Weyco, an insurance management corporation in Michigan. Howard doesn't like smokers, so he has instituted an anti-smoking policy.

Fine...except that Weyers' policy outlaws smoking off the job as well as on. He has imposed random, mandatory breathalyzer tests on his 200 employees. Fail once—and you're fired. "You work for me,"Weyer says, "this is what I expect." If Weyer can be the nosmoking dictator, other bosses can dictate that employees can't have a beer after work, must go to a particular kind of church on Sunday, or can't have a Democratic bumper sticker on their cars.