Not to be politically incorrect but . . .
There’s a reason airlines don’t hire blind air traffic controllers or traffic policemen. How is this different:
A Swedish labour court fined Ford’s Volvo Car Corp 40,000 Swedish crowns (2,891 pounds) in damages on Wednesday for refusing a woman a job on an assembly line on the grounds she was too short at 160 cm (5.2 ft).
The woman, then 27, applied for a job at a Volvo car plant in Gothenburg three years ago to be told assembly line workers must be between 163 and 195 cm tall for safety reasons.
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:21 am
In America employers need to make reasonable accomodation. It’s really really hard to accomodate a blind cop such that the cop could do the job. For a short assembly-line worker, they could get her a step-stool and put her on the line in places where she doesn’t need to reach very far to do her job. Assembly line jobs are easier to accomodate.
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:23 am
And when she falls off the stool and into machinery, they get sued. It’s lose-lose.
September 22nd, 2005 at 12:10 pm
I am willing to bet the companies put those rules in place because they are trying to limit their exposure workplace accidents which they are probably required by law to pay extremly large amounts of money for.
It would be funnier if they got fined for follwing the law (it is possible that workplace regulations state certian conditions on what can be done….much like how tall you have to be to ride a rollar coaster)
September 22nd, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I’m suddenly reminded of the film Dancing in the Dark.