More EU lunacy

[Gob]

Fatness "can constitute a disability" for the purposes of European Union equality at work legislation, Europe's highest court has ruled.


The judgment means British companies will be required to treat obese workers as "disabled", providing them with larger seats, special parking spaces and other facilities. “Obesity can constitute a ‘disability’ within the meaning of the Employment Equality Directive,” the European Court of Justice ruled. “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 EU court ruling, which is binding on British employers, follows a case brought by Karsten Kaltoft, a Danish childminder, who claimed he was sacked by his local authority employer because he was so overweight. Mr Kaltoft, who now has a different job as a lorry driver, hailed the ruling as victory against his sacking by his former employer, the local authority in the small Danish town of Billund. "It is good that we now recognise that obesity can be a handicap, and I hope that municipality realise that it was not okay to fire me,” he said. "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.”

Important to the ruling, is the EU court’s judgement that the origin of the disability is irrelevant even if someone's gross obesity is caused by overeating or gluttony. “The concept of ‘disability’ within the meaning of the directive must be understood as referring to a limitation which results in particular from long-term physical, mental or psychological impairments which may hinder the full and effective participation of the person concerned in professional life on an equal basis with other workers,” said the court “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.”

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As of the late 1970s it was treated as a disability in Calif. Just like other disabilities even those which are self-inflicted.

If some one loses a hand in an industrial accident due to provable carelessness or even violating safety rules they qualify as disabled.


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[wesw]

in most construction and manufacturing situations violating safety rules is expected of employees, until there is an accident. then the blame game begins.....

[Lord Jim]

Shock poll shows voters believe Ukip is to the left of the Tories

Sunday 14 December 2014

Voters see Ukip as more left wing than the Conservative Party in a shock poll finding that will fuel concerns among Ed Miliband's allies that Nigel Farage is "parking his tanks on Labour's lawn".

A poll for The Independent on Sunday exposes what Labour strategists have been fearing for months – that voters do not regard Ukip as a party of the far right, but as one closer to the centre ground than the Tories. As such it could win Labour votes in the North. It suggests that attempts by Labour to portray Mr Farage's party as "more Thatcherite than Thatcher" have fallen flat.

The findings by ComRes will also be unsettling for the Conservatives, who must seize support from the centre-ground to win a majority at the next general election.

It is the first time that voters have put Ukip to the left of the Conservatives, in a format in which they are asked to place parties on the left-right political spectrum. The move creates greater uncertainty over the outcome of May's election.

On the traditional measure of voting intention, Labour's lead has slipped to only one point compared with four points last month. Ed Miliband's party is on 34 per cent, while the Conservative Party is up three points to 33 per cent – perhaps as a result of the Prime Minister's speech on immigration, or of giveaways on stamp duty in the Autumn Statement. Ukip is down 1 point to 18 per cent, while the Liberal Democrats are unchanged on 8 per cent. The Green Party, which experienced some uplift a few weeks ago, is down to 2 per cent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 23416.html

[rubato]

did you mean to start a new thread?

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[MajGenl.Meade]

No, I think LJ is pointing to one fall-out of the EU far-left conspiracy to destroy Europe and hand it over to malingerers, maniacs and moslems. Stupidity such as that shown in the OP is what drives normal people to the metaphorical barricades.

A disability involves the loss of a physical part or a mental deterioration. Gaining big fat wobbley tummies and asses is the opposite of losing a bodily part. We at the USEFP have the solution to their problems. USEFP - a vote for sanity!

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[Lord Jim]

Stupidity such as that shown in the OP is what drives normal people to the metaphorical barricades.

Precisely...

Every bit of idiotic meddling that the EU engages in creates new Ukip voters...

That was my point...

(A point that was probably obvious to everyone here, save one....)

[rubato]

So the UKIP are promoting hatred of foreigners AND fat people as a recruiting tool?

No wonder they are successful. Throw in a little light cruelty to people you can blame for their own hardships and you've got something there brother!

Fear and hatred sell to the masses, just look at the GOPs "hate immigrants" platform. It still works even after years of zero net illegal immigration.




[ Note: when the total stays flat the net number of immigrants is zero. When it goes down, it is negative.]


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[Lord Jim]

[rubato]

Wow, cute graphics are better than thinking when thinking is much too difficult.


Maroooooon.

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[MajGenl.Meade]

Allow me to explain once again.

"You missed the point"

The point = stupid EU laws make people angry

Angry people are more likely to support any party that promises to get rid of the EU influence on Grate Bratian.

UKIP is a harbor for angry people who want to opt out of the EU

Neither the OP not any follow-up suggested that the point was the UKIP is promoting anything for or against fat slobs.

Therefore your post was rather non-responsive to the discussion.

Thank you

[rubato]

UKIP is a harbor for sadistic morons.

That is what you meant.

Maybe the problem is that you have too many sadistic morons? Have you ever thought of that?



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[Crackpot]

Sounds like just the party for you then....

[rubato]

Sounds like just the party for you then....

Sorry sport, I'm not the "hate fat people" party. Nor the "hate immigrants party". That's LJ.

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[Jarlaxle]

Wow, cute graphics are better than thinking when thinking is much too difficult.


Maroooooon.

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The next time you demonstrate thinking will be the first.

[Lord Jim]

Sounds like just the party for you then....

Sorry sport, I'm not the "hate fat people" party. Nor the "hate immigrants party". That's LJ.

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[Jarlaxle]

Sounds like just the party for you then....

Sorry sport, I'm not the "hate fat people" party. Nor the "hate immigrants party". That's LJ.

yrs,
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Would you like a baseball bat to use on that straw man?

[MajGenl.Meade]

UKIP is a harbor for sadistic morons. That is what you meant. Maybe the problem is that you have too many sadistic morons? Have you ever thought of that?
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I don't think you get to tell me what I meant, and that's especially so when you invent it from whole cloth and ignore what I actually said (and meant). In the meantime, please vote for USEFP (U.S. Eats Fat People) - our beloved leader, Jeff is much nicer than that Farage person. He believes wants to open boarders and having immigrants over for dinner.

[rubato]

Lets all hate on fat people and be like LJ and the Maj.Genl.!


Screw fat people! Let them all die! They don't really have degenerative joint damage to their knees and hips they're just self-indulgent flabbos! Fuck 'em! We can all hate them because its their own fault, they are disgusting. Jesus hates fat people too.


That's the way. God wants us to have someone to hate. That's how we know god is good!


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[TPFKA@W]

I have this feeling that Rube fights with his wife then comes on here and takes it out on folks.