[Gllug] OT: Health on job applications

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Tue 28 Oct, Martin A. Brooks bloviated thus:

> If I were diabetic I would _want_ my employer (if I had one who wasn't
> me, anyway :) to know simply so that, if I were found collapsed on the
> floor, they might have a clue as to what the problem is.

Yes but that's a LONG way from the job application stage...

I guess the problem is that I come from a country that has had a
tradition of not trusting employers to do the right thing, and so
legislates.  The UK, after all, doesn't even legislatively require
employers to give their employees bank holidays off!

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