20 August 2009
Hiring Discrimination and Health
Preferring to hire a skinny bimbo for personal reasons, as recently reported on AlterNet, is grounds for a discrimination suit. However a corporation may certainly weigh the cost of subsidizing health insurance for an obese employee against the benefit to it of the skills and performance of that employee.
It's not the responsibility of that corporation to counsel its current or prospective employees on lifestyle changes. That is the kind of service that should be required and paid for in the program that results from reform of our national health care insurance. It would end up saving us money as well as improving our quality of life.
Preferring to hire a skinny bimbo for personal reasons, as recently reported on AlterNet, is grounds for a discrimination suit. However a corporation may certainly weigh the cost of subsidizing health insurance for an obese employee against the benefit to it of the skills and performance of that employee.
It's not the responsibility of that corporation to counsel its current or prospective employees on lifestyle changes. That is the kind of service that should be required and paid for in the program that results from reform of our national health care insurance. It would end up saving us money as well as improving our quality of life.
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