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CURRENT OBESITY REPORTS
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 504-509Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13679-015-0182-7
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Obesity; Discrimination; Weight bias; Stigma; Workplace; Employment law
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Obesity discrimination in employment and recruitment has become a topic of focus for research examination with increasing reports of discrimination by colleagues and managers. Whilst a limited number of legal cases have emerged, disability law is consulted in line with the expectation of anti-discriminatory practices at work. In line with disability law, whether obesity is defined as a disability or not has an impact on the outcome of a court ruling. Ambiguity when defining obesity through either the medical or social model means there are many questions that remain unanswered which might lead to inconsistency in court rulings.
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