Don't we already do that here in the US?
Posted on 12/18/2014 8:33:32 PM PST by Steelfish
EU Court Rules That Fatness 'Can Constitute A Disability’ EU court ruling means that British bosses will be required to treat obese workers as "disabled" providing them with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities
The judgment means British companies will be required to treat obese workers as "disabled", providing them with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities Photo: PA By Bruno Waterfield 18 Dec 2014 Fatness "can constitute a disability" for the purposes of European Union equality at work legislation, Europe's highest court has ruled. The judgment means British companies will be required to treat obese workers as "disabled", providing them with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities.
“Obesity can constitute a ‘disability’ within the meaning of the Employment Equality Directive,” the European Court of Justice ruled.
“While no general principle of EU law prohibits, in itself, discrimination on grounds of obesity, that condition falls within the concept of ‘disability’ where, under particular conditions, it hinders the full and effective participation of the person concerned in professional life on an equal basis with other workers.”
The EU court ruling, which is binding on British employers, follows a case brought by Karsten Kaltoft, a Danish childminder, who claimed he was sacked by his local authority employer because he was so overweight.
Mr Kaltoft, who now has a different job as a lorry driver, hailed the ruling as victory against his sacking by his former employer, the local authority in the small Danish town of Billund. "It is good that we now recognise that obesity can be a handicap, and I hope that municipality realise that it was not okay to fire me,” he said.
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Don't we already do that here in the US?
Giving fat people a reason not to lose weight...
I lost 50 lbs in the last 18 months...
Pretty simple plan...
Stop eating the crap they call food and stop opening your pie hole stuffing food into it...
Unbelievably that works...!
Heck, they get all the good parking spaces. I’m surprised they don’t (yet) get to drive in diamond lanes.
What happens when you retire?
I didn't make up those statistics, by the way. They come from Weight Watchers themselves. Look it up, if you want.
I put on 40 pounds from the stress of illness and death in family over six years and I am FINALLY getting back to some semblance of normality.
Problem: as one ages, it IS more difficult to shed weight. THAT also will be a problem for those who DON'T take the weight off before they turn "old," that is, over sixty. It DOES get "less easy" as the years roll by.
:o)Don't believe me? That's okay with me. I was in the fitness business for 44 years, but what do I know?
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Lol. There ARE always exceptions, of course. And leave it to a FReeper to point that out, as if I didn't know it.
You must still be young, that is, under 65. :o)
Maybe a change in the chemicals and processes used in food production could be changed. There are 1600 things not allowed in food consumed in Europe....we have the highest amount of fat people....time for some common sense.
Sugar is used in everything here, because there aren’t limits to how much can be put in foods, or drinks.
The low fat diet does not work and actually causes diabetes, yet it is promoted as the heart diet.
When the USA gets the truth, there will be less fat people.
There are other countries whose diets are much better and less heart disease, diabetes, and should be promoted here.
People can buy better food, but with the cost of it now, that isn’t going to happen.
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