European court terms obesity as a disability

#Obesity The European Court of Justice has ruled #obesity as a disability. This would mean that all employers who come under the gambit of the 28-nation EU would have to take necessary to improve the working conditions of these disabled individuals by making available car parking spaces closer to the office, changes to workers' desks and other such modifications.
The ruling, which is binding across the EU, has such profound implications for employment law that experts expect EU nations to challenge it.
The ruling has been given in the case of a Danish childcare worker who weighed 159-Kg who had been fired because he was overweight and fat. The ruling was that if obesity hinders a "full and effective participation in professional life," it could count as a disability.
Hence, it now falls on the employers to ensure that necessary facilities be made available to this section of people since discrimination on grounds of disability is illegal under the laws of the European Union.
In the opinion of Tam Fry, a spokesman for the UK's National Obesity Forum, this ruling could be challenged by EU member nations because it could give rise to friction in the workplace between obese people and other workers.