Thread: Too Fat To Work

and even if the lazy fat cunnts can be bothered to find a job, they will now be treated as if disabled.

a bigger insult to the genuinely disabled i have yet to encounter.

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times - Saturday, December 20, 2014


Europe’s highest court ruled obesity “can constitute a disability” under the European Union’s equality at work legislation, meaning that European employers must treat overweight workers as “disabled.”

Under the Employment Equality Directive, bosses must provide obese employees with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities to accommodate their “disability.”

“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 European Court of Justice ruled, the Telegraph reported.

The court also said that the cause of someone’s obesity is irrelevant, even if someone’s excessive weight is brought on by gross overeating.

“The directive has the object of implementing equal treatment and aims in particular to enable a person with a disability to have access to or participate in employment. In addition, it would run counter to the aim of the directive if its application was dependent on the origin of the disability,” the court ruled.

The EU did not define what level of Body Mass Index was required to consider an employee disabled by obesity.

The ruling comes after a law suit brought by Karstel Kaltoft, a Danish nanny, who claimed he was laid off by his employer because he was obese.

The Danish local authority that Mr. Kaltoft worked for reportedly fired him on allegations that the man was so overweight he needed help from a colleague to tie children’s shoelaces.

Mr. Kaltoft, who now works as a truck driver, saw the court’s decision as a victory over his former employer.

“It is good that we now recognize that obesity can be a handicap, and I hope that municipality realize that is was not okay to fire me,” he said, the Telegraph reported.

“I never saw it as a requirement that I needed to lose weight and never had a feeling that it could cost me the job,” Mr. Kaltoft said.

The court’s ruling in Mr. Kaltoft’s case could hurt European employers who now have to bear the costs to make adjustments for obese staff.

“This test could mean that businesses face claims from obese staff for failing to make reasonable adjustments to their role if the job entails tasks where they would be on an unequal footing with other staff — tasks that require full mobility such as stacking shelves in a supermarket for example,” said Julian Hemming, employment partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, the Telegraph reported.


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Yep...once government subsidizes sloth (otherwise known as Socialism) sooner or later the money will run out.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Yep...once government subsidizes sloth (otherwise known as Socialism) sooner or later the money will run out.

And yet you mock Michelle Obama's campaign to try to get kids to eat a healthy diet?

Her lunches are revolting!







Right...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Yep...once government subsidizes sloth (otherwise known as Socialism) sooner or later the money will run out.

And yet you mock Michelle Obama's campaign to try to get kids to eat a healthy diet?

Her lunches are revolting!







Right...

Why do Americans eat everything off trays and with plastic utensils? ... is it to prepare them for prison food?

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Australia recently waddled past USA as the fattest nation on Earth, the obesity problem isn't limited to a couple of corpulent bludgers in the UK...

Bullshit,

America - 33% men and 36% women are obese.
Australia - 25.5% men, 23.4% women are obese.

figures for both countries from 2007

Epidemiology of obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

And yet you mock Michelle Obama's campaign to try to get kids to eat a healthy diet?

Not just me. It's a full court press on her revolting meals:

School kids are not slowing in their revolt against Michelle Obama's school lunch program as more and more "healthy" items are resulting in smaller portion sizes and downright disgusting looking options.

Armed with the hashtag, #ThanksMichelleObama, the social media generation is flooding the web with photos of their unappetizing lunches. Here are a few examples of what students came back to after their winter break feasts:





https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6w3Ja4IMAAEcuV.jpg

Sir William Beveridge will be rolling in his grave

Unless there's an insurmountable genetic cause for a person's obesity, I have no sympathy for those who are disabled as a result of being grossly overweight.

Most people in the developed world eat far too much out of habit and boredom.

The same people exercise far too little to utilize the energy they consume.

In other words, these folks are a waste of time, space and energy.

Those disabled by the condition ought to be left to starve or shift themselves, and instead of increasing their social welfare payments and giving them mobility scooters, they should receive less support and indeed be fined for not reducing weight through properly adjusted diets and exercise.

I've seen dozens of obese people lose weight, regain mobility and give up unhealthy diets and lifestyles that obesity fosters, which include alcohol, drug and tobacco dependency.

Doctors should be handing out Vit B3 and exercise regimens instead of drugs and band-aid fixes that only side-line the real causes of obesity.

Unless there's an insurmountable genetic cause for a person's obesity,

its me glands, according to Peter Cook.

On learning Elizabeth Taylor’s glands were behind her weight issues:

“Poor woman. There she is, in her suite in the Dorchester, harmlessly watching television.

Suddenly her glands pick up the phone and order two dozen éclairs and a bottle of brandy.

‘No,’ she screams, ‘please, I beg you!’

But her glands take no notice.

Determined glands they are, her glands.

You’ve never known glands like them. The trolley arrives and Elizabeth Taylor hides in the bathroom, but her glands, her glands take the éclairs, smash down the door and stuff them down her throat.

I’m glad I haven’t got glands like that. Terrible glands.”

Wicked.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Australia recently waddled past USA as the fattest nation on Earth

Originally Posted by palexxxx

America - 33% men and 36% women are obese.
Australia - 25.5% men, 23.4% women are obese.

figures for both countries from 2007

I'd suggest Toyota's numbers are more recent . . . but then how can one become obese through leek?

Looks like an emergency anal insertion kit, for when one runs out of rodents.

^^ I don't see any numbers from quimby,

however, I can't imagine Australia's figures have increased by 8% for men and 13% for women while America's have not altered one bit since 2007.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Looks like an emergency anal insertion kit, for when one runs out of Gerbils.

More used insertion animals according to media reports.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

however, I can't imagine Australia's figures have increased by 8% for men and 13% for women while America's have not altered one bit since 2007.

Speak for yourself lard ass.

These people need to be rendered down for soap or glue.

Soylent Green anyone?

This is why benefits should be paid in vouchers only exchangeable for fruit and veg and not cash.

Originally Posted by terry57

God help you if a fat coont is seated next to you on a plane.

This bloke doesn't look too impressed.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Originally Posted by terry57

God help you if a fat coont is seated next to you on a plane.

This bloke doesn't look too impressed.

Not a center seat assignment? Airline's booking agent must be slipping...


One note on this thread... the overweight make the rest of us look so oh so good.

As far as the uhm... condition... Its really just a total lack of self respect. Diets, and exercise, do, in fact, work. (although certain thyroid conditions are a medical cause of obesity)

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That picture is just so wrong on many levels.

When that fat fuk turned up at check in he should of been made to buy two seats or even better fuked off down into the hold with the luggage.

If he refused he should of been refunded his money and fucked off.

I mean why should the paying public be forced to be seated next to that tosser ?

Its fookin wrong innit.

Further more the turd is flying a Budget airline where the seats are smaller.

Taking the piss EH.

Actually the fat bastard is unable to do the seat belt up so its a no fly violation innit.