According to this article written a couple of months ago, some employment judges in the UK are trying to get legislation passed to ban overweight discrimination in the workplace, citing the fact that it is just as abusive and discriminatory to verbally mock or refuse to hire overweight people as it would be if those comments were directed at members of other protected classes of people. They are right; it is!
However, it is just as abusive and discriminatory to do it to people based on their heights as well is it not? Why do us short people have to endure verbal abuse in the workplace then, if we are hired at all that is? Shouldn't the workplace be a place where everyone is free from harassment, no matter who they are?
Well, I guess not, if you are a short person apparently.
Here is the article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/leading-employment-judges-call-for-law-banning-fattism-in-workplace-a6999401.html
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