WHO bans recruitment of smokers
The World Health Organisation says it will no longer recruit smokers. New vacancy notices now carry a stark warning to candidates for any posts worldwide: 'WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or other tobacco users.' The new policy will not apply to existing WHO employees but they are being encouraged to quit.
Spokesman Iain Simpson said the recruitment ban on tobacco users had been checked with lawyers and was not discriminatory. But a leading Swiss anti-smoking campaigner Jean Charles Rielle said he felt ill as ease with the move. "As a doctor, I cannot accept that a person suffering from a dependency should be excluded if they are able to carry out the objectives set by the company."
Source: AFP (1 December 2005)
posted by Simon Clark @ 20:31
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Discrimination is "... to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit." Some of us might still remember the days when people where judged on their alleged or factual association with a religion. To get a job, a member of my family had to prove that his grandmother was not jewish, despite her jewish first name.
We seem to be back to square one. Big WHO dictates your private life.
When will they request that you show a condom before entering the building? When will they exclude homosexuals or singles (for fear of sexual promiscuity)?
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