Sighs

"While employees and applicants are protected based on a number of characteristics, there are a few subjects not included such as weight. Many states, including California, do not have any law protecting potential employees from bias based on this characteristic. Without any federal mandates, this type of judgment may be rampant in the employment process. Potential hardworking employees may be passed over due to a condition that may be out of their hands."

~ https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=24974

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Presidential candidate?

"According to a lawsuit brought by workers, the golf club managers scrambled to schedule prettier, younger, and thinner women to work at the on-site restaurant during times when Trump was visiting. Before that, every time he visited, Trump would allegedly tell staffers to fire women who didn’t meet his aesthetic standards."

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a4260533/donald-trump-national-golf-course-sexism-claims/

And...

"Strozier, the former catering director, said Vincent Stellio — a former Trump bodyguard who had risen to become a Trump Organization vice president — approached her in 2003 about an employee that Strozier thought was talented.

Stellio wanted the employee fired because she was overweight, Strozier said in her legal filing."

~ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-trump-women/

Who else?

"A year later, Mike van der Goes — a golf pro who had been promoted to be Trump National’s general manager — made a similar request to fire the same overweight employee, Strozier said."

~ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-trump-women/

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"Studies have been conducted that show many employers are actually passing over candidates for occupations due to how they look. Specific targets of this prejudice are those with bigger bodies. While both men and women are subjected to this, it is the women that are identified and singled out more so than men. It has become a leading cause of either discrimination or termination from jobs for the female population, representing the third most common form of discrimination for women in the workplace, after sex discrimination and age discrimination."

~ https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=24974