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The Florida Bar steps up its diversity efforts
Arnell Bryant-Willis, the Bar's first diversity initiatives manager, will help make it happen.
Art Levy | 3/22/2012
Joking Aside
 Phyllis Towzey |
The takeaway: Companies shouldn't consider weight when making personnel decisions beyond ensuring that employees are able to perform the physical requirements of their jobs. Towzey adds that supervisors would be wise to not even mention the issue of weight.
"Isolated comments can be used later on to show that the supervisor and the company as a whole had a bias against people who are overweight," Towzey says. "People better not make jokes anymore, like 'Oh, we better get an extra dozen doughnuts —?Joe is here today.' Joe might file a lawsuit."
