LogFAQs > #962070048

Revelation34 posted...

Says who?

Conditions of employment are generally set by employers, not the government. The exception is anything to do with workplace safety, and while you could argue that requiring employees to be fit enough to handle the work safely falls under that, the legal requirement to enforce that standard falls on the employer, not the employee. An employee that fails to meet their job's physical fitness requirements should just be fired (or not hired), not subject to any legal penalty. Legal penalties should only apply if the employer fails to enforce the job's physical fitness requirements (presumably by firing them, or at least threatening to do so if they don't improve) and people are endangered as a result.

Of course, in the case of police, fire, and military, the government is the employer, but the basic structure still remains the same: Employees that fail to meet the job's standards should be fired, not subjected to legal penalties.