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Discriminated against because of weight

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 29 March 2011 - 23:20

Ladies,
Does anyone know if there is any law here with regard to discrmination against someone because of their weight in the workplace? Just spoke to an friend of a friend and she told me that her work were after her to lose weight approx a year ago, she has lost 7kg but they want her to lose an additional 4kg and have given her two weeks to do so. Not to mention the fact that 2 weeks is far too short a time to lose 4kg in, does anyone know if she has any legal rights? She was crushed to say the least. I felt terrible for her.

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EW MASTER
Latest post on 02 April 2011 - 11:22
Is it an airline? I thought that! Airlines do have weight guidelines for their staff and I have a couple of friends on their weightloss programmes, because they've gained. If you're required to be a certain weight for your work, not much you can do about it.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 30 March 2011 - 11:53
Gosh imagine if all hefty people in the UAE were given this ultimatum :\:
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 30 March 2011 - 10:20
Is it an airline?
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 30 March 2011 - 10:17
Not really sadly. She can only really do something if they fired her, then take a case with the Labour court for unfair dismissal. Might be worth giving them a call anyway.
 
 

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