Obesity can be considered a disability under EU employment law, the bloc's top court ruled on Thursday, in a case relating to an overweight Danish man who claims he was unfairly fired.
Karsten Kaltoft had worked for 15 years as a childminder, looking after children in his home in Billund, western Denmark, before he lost his job in 2010.
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