Weight issues?

[aliciab]

Has anyone on here been told to keep the weight off or they will lose their job?

[SFI145]

Well obviously I can only speak for myself and the answer is no.

[button push ignored]

Maybe this is a attorney looking for a class action law suit participants.

[+TSRA]

Well aliciab, that would be illegal in most jurisdictions, and while you might find company training programs that suggest keeping the weight off for personal and professional reasons, to threaten a job would be a human rights violation.

[mutt]

Yep, in my part of the world, female flight attendants are required to stay within the green BMI band, if they aren't, they are given a written warning and 12 months to achieve it, if they still haven't, then they get 3 months unpaid leave, after that they will be terminated if they haven't achieved it.

Pilots also have to have a BMI of 30 otherwise they might have to undergo all sorts of additional annual medical tests.