Forced Worker Microchipping Faces Growing Preemptive Strike

When it comes to implantable devices in the workplace, one person’s high-tech utopia is another’s sign of the apocalypse.

Indiana state lawmakers, like their counterparts in at least 10 other states, might have had this paradox in mind when they passed legislation aimed at giving workers a choice. Indiana’s HB 1143 bans employers from requiring their workers to have devices implanted into their bodies, such as microchips or RFID tags.

The new law is set to take effect July 1, after Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed it on March 11.

The legislation, like similar proposals pending in a handful of ...