Employees told: Lose weight, cash in

The Detriot News reports:

Looking to get some extra cash from the boss? Forget logging long hours, brokering that big deal or sucking up at the company holiday party.

Try dropping 20 pounds.

Employers have begun dangling big incentives, such as cash bonuses and paid days off, to encourage workers to lose weight. Clarkston-based Freedom One Financial Corp. is even handing out all-expenses-paid tropical vacations to employees who meet weight loss goals.

Pound-shedding payoffs are becoming more common as employers weighed down by soaring health care costs become increasingly preoccupied with slimming down their work force.

Here's an even better idea:don't get health care at work.