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View All NewsDoes obesity constitute a disability? — CWS 3.0
May 05, 2016
Employers across the globe are having to manage the increase in the size of their workforce, and the attendant complications for their employees’ health, not to mention their inability to carry out normal work-related activities. In a new CWS 3.0 newsletter article, Staffing Industry Analysts’ Fiona Coombe, CCWP, director of legal and regulatory research, examines the question of whether obesity constitutes a disability, and therefore whether obese employees have a right not to be discriminated against.