Private companies should be free to choose who they want to hire. If they do discriminate against any group then it's probably bad business sense because they are limiting their choice of employees, but that should be up to them.
If I went for a job and was told I wasn't getting it because of my weight or my height or my gender or whatever then personally it wouldn't bother me one little bit. I'd just go and work elsewhere and not moan about it. If you are good at your job you'll always get on, no matter who you are.
Hurrah Life in the old dog yet ! So that’s talky wrong yet again then!!
Can I just point out that people who do not look after themselves for whatever reason are not in any way a focal point for my personal wrath or anything like that. In fact quite the reverse, I do think that generally they need support and help to overcome their issues, and the opportunities for early intervention are ridiculously overlooked within our health and social provisions.. However, what I am saying is that it is not the responsibility of employers. It is ridiculous to try to pretend that obesity is not a health problem, wrapped up in some sort of pseudo political correctness bullsh!t. This is a case of the emperors new clothes. We all know that obesity and eating disorders are a health time bomb not only for individuals, but for the country as a whole. There is no reason whatsoever why an employer should not take that into account in a recruitment, it is simply seeking to reduce the likelihood of preventable costs and disruption to their business and entirely within the law as long as the criteria is applied evenly.
Pretty much! its all about Money and productivity.
But we are human-don't we look out for each other? Oh yeah we don't...capitalist world!
Japan used to go out of its way to sor out its employees but at huge costs.
Japan used to go out of its way to sor out its employees but at huge costs.
By sort out I presume you mean sort the wheat from the chaff?
For example Nissan at Sunderland the much vaunted example of manufacturing excellence proving that the British worker is the equal of any in the world..... they carried out one of the largest scale recruitment exercises ever in the UK. i.e. taking maximum care to ensure that they had recruited the "right" people. Further to that have you ever been to an Asian country? You will in general note if you have that fatties are quite rare, well until McDonalds got there that is.
So if you mean that they take care not to recruit "unsuitable" people, then the answer is yes, alternativly if you mean that they love their fatties and tend them at every possible opportunity I think you will find you are wrong for the reasons given.