In a judgment handed down today December 18, the CJEU confirmed that EU law does not consider obesity itself as grounds for discrimination. Nonetheless when obesity constitutes a disability, then the worker can invoke grounds for discrimination.
The reference case concerns a Danish child-minder who alleged that his employer had terminated his employment contract because he was obese and his obesity was the equivalent of a disability and so grounds for discrimination based on disability.
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