Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/03/07 17:30

DrFeelgoodWA wrote:
> "Jim" <jim@home.con> wrote in message
> news:kQPMi.172$R95.112@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com...
>> "Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1191429553.952048.5090@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
Do I want some
>>> disfigured woman to be the first thing my customers see when they
>>> walk
>>> into my restaurant?
>>>
>>> Hell no.
>>>
>> Then sell the restaurant. Get a modeling agency. Duh.
>
> What if slug ugly decides she wants to be a model?

Assuming that the discrimination in question would *normally* be
forbidden, the employer may be exempt where the need for an attractive
person can be demonstrated to be a "bona-fide occupational
qualification" (BFOQ). For example, a US company was sued by a
helicopter pilot who was rejected for a job flying a helicopter around a
construction site in Mecca for purposes of surveying the work being
done. The pilot was rejected on the grounds that he wasn't a Muslim. But
the company satisfied the court that since non-Muslims aren't permitted
in Mecca and therefore a non-Muslim pilot would be arrested and executed
upon setting foot in Mecca, which would make it impractical for the
company to maintain the pilot as an employee, being a Muslim was a BFOQ
for this job.

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