Squeezed out
The dismissal of a 22-stone sewer worker who was too fat to fit through a manhole was not unfair, an industrial tribunal in Woburn, Bedfordshire, decided. The tribunal was told that Thames Water gave Gary Cannon, 38, of north London, a year to lose weight, but he failed do so. The company had been extremely long-suffering.
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