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... Transit employees' ability to perform physical portions of essential job functions may also be assessed through physical ability testing. Moreover, transit agencies may have concerns about their employees' health and overall physical fitness as those factors affect productivity, health care costs, and workers' compensation costs, which may lead transit agencies to consider imposing lifestyle restrictions related to employee weight and off-duty use of tobacco, including instituting physical testing to measure compliance with those restrictions.
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