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Should companies also require their employees not be overweight because they are less likely to miss work due to illness?
by Karsteski 5y ago
Should companies also require their employees not be overweight because they are less likely to miss work due to illness?
- chrisseaton 5y agoI don't think weight is a protected category, so yes this is fine. For example insurers will discriminate based on weight. The military discriminates based on weight. Hooters discriminates based on weight. Etc.
- Karsteski 5y agoWell I hope we don't end up in such a world. Even if I personally won't be affected negatively. Sounds incredibly distopian.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoYou already do. Just because nobody writes an articles talking about how they try to avoid hiring overweight people doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
- Ekaros 5y agoOr to be sterilised so they can't get pregnant or make their partner pregnant. Having kids leads to missing work after all.
- shadowgovt 5y agoAn employment policy interfering with employee pregnancy, in particular, is illegal (but only because it was explicitly made so in 1978 - https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/pregnancy-discrimination-act-1978 https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/pregnancy-discrimination-act-1...). In general, when an employment discrimination is not specifically forbidden via the Civil Rights Act (or interpreted as equivalent to something explicitly forbidden by the Court), it is legal to discriminate based on it in the United States. Beyond that, the Court and the legislature are (from a political philosophy standpoint) generally willing to let individual employees and employers (or employers and unions) hash out the messy details.