As well as a greater susceptibility to illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and depression, severely overweight people face a raft of challenges – one of which is discrimination in the workplace.
This page aims to provide everything you need to know about obesity and the workplace, on personneltoday.com and beyond.
Recent articles published on Personneltoday.com on obesity and the workplace
Employers ignore the social stigma on obesity – 9 March
Fear of fattism: are you discriminating against obese employees? – 9 March 2007
Wellbeing news in brief – 6 March 2007
Ethics: How HR can help staff to take a positive view on their employers’ ethics – 27 February 2007
How can employers cope with obesity in the workplace? – 6 February 2007
Employers turn to lawyers for guidance on obesity – 31 January 2007
Post-Christmas obesity – 16 January 2007
Overweight employees are disadvantaged in the workplace – 2 January 2007
Obesity research: Fitness and fatness are huge workplace issues – 5 December 2006
Recent articles published on the web on obesity and the workplace
Is weight the new race? (The Observer, 6 July 2006)
Useful web sites
Department of Health – Obesity
Department of Health – Obesity statistics
NHS Information Centre – Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet
World Health Organization – Obesity in Europe
The Obesity Awareness & Solutions Trust
Wellcome Trust – Stereotyping and fattism
Blog postings on obesity and the workplace
The Primate Journal – Fat guy sues Air France for fattism
JobXpresso – Employers can refuse overweight staff
Cognitive Daily: Obesity and discrimination
Relevant books from Amazon
The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology (Paperback) by Paul F. Campos (Foreword), Jan Wright (Author), Michael Gard (Author).
Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination by Sondra Solovay (Paperback).
Weight Bias (Hardback) by Kelly D. Brownell (Editor), Leslie Rudd (Editor), Marlene B. Schwartz (Editor), Rebecca M. Puhl (Editor).
