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maxmycardagain

Her employer has a duty of care and could speak to her, offer help and advice

tomtontom

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Her employer has a duty of care and could speak to her, offer help and advice

What help and advice would you suggest? A grown adult should not need their employer to tell them to cut down on pies.

BillJones

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Her employer has a duty of care and could speak to her, offer help and advice

Why do you make up things like this?

Please, do point out the legislation that says that an employer has responsibility for an employee's weight. You'll find, when you look that they don't...

rh41

BillJones wrote: »

Why do you make up things like this?

Please, do point out the legislation that says that an employer has responsibility for an employee's weight. You'll find, when you look that they don't...

I can just imagine saying to someone "I just wanted to say out of my duty of care your a bit on the plump size so lay off the buffet at the parties"


Its nothing to do with the employer and people need to take some responsbility

theoretica

rh41 wrote: »

Its nothing to do with the employer

I wouldn't go this far - if she goes off sick because she is unable to do her job or stays at work but is less efficient than she should be it will have quite a lot to do with her employer. A sensible and farsighted employer might well see that it is to their advantage to try to turn a situation around before it becomes serious rather than after.

My employer subsidised a lunchtime weightwatchers group for instance. I hasten to add that I don't know of anyone being taken aside and told to join WW!

Nebulous2

I remember the matron in a hospital taking three nurses to the office every Monday morning to be weighed. You couldn't get off with that now - she probably shouldn't have then!

Pennywise

I can't wait to see the post on here from someone claiming they're being bullied at work because their boss/hr dept has suggested that they may benefit from losing a little weight!!!!

BillJones

rh41 wrote: »

I can just imagine saying to someone "I just wanted to say out of my duty of care your a bit on the plump size so lay off the buffet at the parties"
Its nothing to do with the employer and people need to take some responsbility

And if they did, you can imagine the outraged posts on here in response.

Am I really in such a small minority now in this country in believing that we are responsible for ourselves to some extent? What happened that we can have people seriously suggesting that an employer has a duty to stop an employee overeating at home?

Poppie68

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Her employer has a duty of care and could speak to her, offer help and advice

Sorry but where on earth did you read an employee's weight is any concern of the employer? I'm sure there maybe one or two jobs where weight could be an issue....ie: human cannon ball otherwise i'm sure the employee will tell their employer to !!!!!! off!!!!

If the OP's friend is becoming concerned her weight is affecting her ability to do her job surely the only answer is to take responsibility for your own problem as there is no mention of illness i presume the problem is over eating so join slimming world and the problem will be solved.

terra_ferma

thebullsback wrote: »

A friend of my wife is becoming very concerned about how her weight is affecting here ability to do her job ,a job she has done for over 8 year .
Without going into all the tell your wife's friend to lose weight stuff how does the overweight lady stand nowadays (no pun intended ) with the disability side of things .
thank you

I think it's impossible to answer your question without knowing what has caused her to gain so much weight that it's making difficult to do her job (I assume it's a mobility problem?).

From a disability point of view, being obese doesn't automatically qualify you as disabled, there are plenty of fat people who are physically active, only impairments caused by weight count, as long as they meet the legal definition (e.g. if she could only walk short distances).
However being fat in itself doesn't mean that she is destined to have poor mobility, if that's the issues and needs advice from a fellow fatty who's been in the same situation, feel free to PM .

To sum it up if her impairments meet the definition of disability according to the Equality Act, her employers will need to show that they have made reasonable efforts to accommodate her needs.
https://www.gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010