Employers overwhelmingly disagree with a legal opinion that severe obesity should be treated as a disability, with many saying they will not provide workplace adjustments.
Last month the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) suggested in the case involving a Danish childminder that morbid obesity may amount to a disability under the Equality Act. ...
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