Tell bosses: No comments about health costs.

Make sure all supervisors understand that it is never appropriate to question how much an employee's health problems might cost the organization. Also remind rank-and-file employees to keep comments about co-worker health to themselves.

Recent case: Jullee worked for over a decade for a county government. She developed several health problems. She had a series of strokes, a heart attack, heart valve surgery and arthritis, and took multiple medications that required her to go to the restroom...