HappyFatChick
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Lawyers are arguing over whether an airline can fire its air hostesses for being too fat.
11 employees were recently grounded for putting on too much weight. They say the airline has changed its vision of the "feminine ideal" (abandoning the more buxom prototype in favor of a skinnier model). The staff see that as 'unattainable'.
The airlines will argue that this is a case of selecting the 'best ambassadors' to represent the airline, and the country as a whole, and will also claim that thinner employees are more agile and better equipped to tackle terrorist incidents and other emergencies. Huh?:doh:
'They want to discard the heavier women and bring in newer, thinner models,' said Sheela Joshi, an air hostess who was grounded after a spot weigh-in found she was 1.9kg over the prescribed limit for her height.
Distressed at the prospect of losing her job after 25 years with the company, she went on a crash diet, and now eats only one meal a day to try to keep within the limit. She has been allowed to fly again, but describes the process as demeaning. 'These new policies are humiliating to women.'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1939764,00.html
11 employees were recently grounded for putting on too much weight. They say the airline has changed its vision of the "feminine ideal" (abandoning the more buxom prototype in favor of a skinnier model). The staff see that as 'unattainable'.
The airlines will argue that this is a case of selecting the 'best ambassadors' to represent the airline, and the country as a whole, and will also claim that thinner employees are more agile and better equipped to tackle terrorist incidents and other emergencies. Huh?:doh:
'They want to discard the heavier women and bring in newer, thinner models,' said Sheela Joshi, an air hostess who was grounded after a spot weigh-in found she was 1.9kg over the prescribed limit for her height.
Distressed at the prospect of losing her job after 25 years with the company, she went on a crash diet, and now eats only one meal a day to try to keep within the limit. She has been allowed to fly again, but describes the process as demeaning. 'These new policies are humiliating to women.'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1939764,00.html
