Originally Posted by
MIddle3rd
It is in certain circumstances. You can't be fired for being old or fat (or many other protected status').
Actually you can in aviation. Only difference is that the FAA sets the rules... get too old or too fat and they'll pull your medical. The courts have mostly taken medical fitness to fly out of the hands of the employers and left it solely in the FAA realm.
Originally Posted by
MIddle3rd
That's actually a much larger risk health-wise than being young and unvaccinated. I think we should continue the trend of caring for peoples health and fire people who are obese (and refuse to lose weight) as that has been PROVEN to be a factor in COVID risk. I don't want to feel bad when somebody dies of something that is benign to 99.9% of healthy people. Especially since they refuse to lose weight.
We kind of do that already, if you neglect your health badly enough the FAA will cancel you. The only question is a matter of degree... how fat is too fat?
The FAA actually tried to presumptively diagnosis all heavy-ish pilots with OSA a few years ago... that would have grounded a lot of people, but IIRC congress intervened and put a stop to it.