BBC News - South African chef 'too fat' to live in New Zealand
Probably get ripped apart for this but I actually agree with this! Despite the fact he has tried to lose weight he is still massively overweight and is not an asset to the country of New Zealand and they are right to deny him access to the countrys healthcare system.
Seems a bit of do as I say and not as I do. According to the article 30% of the kiwis are overwieght. This chef was 60 pounds heavier when he first came to New Zealand 6 years ago and his medical was accepted then. Not sure just how much of a burden immigrants are to New Zealand- I haven't heard of them complaining of millions sneaking in from say Australia or Sumatra.
If I was to theorize on New Zealand's health care financial burden I'd say it is fat assed Kiwis not fat South African chefs.
Looks more like grandstanding than effective leadership.
Almost similar law applies in US. Under federal discrimination laws, weight is not a protected class which means your employer can fire you due to your weight.
Difference being though is that overweight Kiwi citizens have paid into their healthcare system from a young age where as an immigrant obviously has not.
BBC News - South African chef 'too fat' to live in New Zealand
Probably get ripped apart for this but I actually agree with this! Despite the fact he has tried to lose weight he is still massively overweight and is not an asset to the country of New Zealand and they are right to deny him access to the countrys healthcare system.
Almost similar law applies in US. Under federal discrimination laws, weight is not a protected class which means your employer can fire you due to your weight.
Obesity is the disease of the XXIth century.
Almost similar law applies in US. Under federal discrimination laws, weight is not a protected class which means your employer can fire you due to your weight.
They're just worried about him causing the island to sink. You know, like Guam will....
That's because many jobs require being in shape. Obese firefighters wouldn't be effective.
BBC News - South African chef 'too fat' to live in New Zealand
Probably get ripped apart for this but I actually agree with this! Despite the fact he has tried to lose weight he is still massively overweight and is not an asset to the country of New Zealand and they are right to deny him access to the countrys healthcare system.
Hopefully discrimination would teach them to stop overeating to death!
It is decision to be fat. These issues should remind people what professional limitations are associated with deciding to be fat.
They're just worried about him causing the island to sink. You know, like Guam will....
Well I just looked up the New Zealand immigrant break down and it changes my thoughts on it a bit. According to Wiki New Zealand has 23% of it's population born someplace other. (so 23% have not paid in since an early age.) But it also means like in this country, immigrants can be seen as THE problem rather than a hard look at the 'natives'.
A part I think you skip over is when this South African FIRST applied for a work permit he was 60 pounds heavier- he has lost weight- and he was ACCEPTED back then. I can see, I suppose, a new requirement on future immigrants to be declared 'fit' (whatever in the blazes that it), though at 1% of the population just what has been accomplished.
You see New Zealand has for the past 4 years restricted migration in to 1% of their population. I wonder just how many of the new arrivals are overweight like the 1.32 million kiwis who are? (the 45,000 new arrivals per year are less than 4% of the wide bodies called citizens. If 30% of the new folks are as fat as the 'natives' then it is 1% of the widebody population already there)
Not sure the death rate of the newcomers but it isn't too far off to say 10 to 15% of the widebody Kiwi population is import- the rest all native.
It just looks like 'natives' stuffing their faces and blaming the FNG for their problems.
What about cops? Plenty of fat cops out there.
well its obviously becoming a problem for the NZ gov and unfourtuntly for them they can't force their own citizens to slim down but they can control what immigrants they allow to stay.
Few, if any, obese. We're talking about 300lbs.
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