Court: Employer must pay for weight-loss surgery
Well besides the smell, nasty habits, unattractive features, and slowness you now have to worry about lawsuits when you hire fat people for a job.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art … wD9AKKJ800An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee's weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work — raising concern among businesses bracing for more such claims.
The Indiana Court of Appeals decision, coupled with a recent Oregon court ruling, could make employers think twice before hiring workers with health conditions that might cost their companies thousands of dollars at a shot down the road.
"This kind of situation will happen again ... and employers are undoubtedly worried about that," said Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J., an offshoot of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Well besides the smell, nasty habits, unattractive features, and slowness you now have to worry about lawsuits when you hire fat people for a job.
