Family Kicked Out Of Golden Corral Restaurant Over Children's Skin Disorder

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250. No, the disabled do not need papers

Nor should they.

But there is a difference between a condition such as this, which mimics an infection, and a highly contagious one, and a disability.

For one thing, this shouldn't be a disability. Nor should public prejudice be allowed to make it one.

But here's the thing - if you took a kid like this to daycare, or a school, they would need a doctor's letter before they were allowed to attend. And that's not discrimination. It's required caution.

Individuals have rights, and it should be the goal of our society to protect those rights. But an infectious TB case can be legally isolated. Certain types of infections (like typhus or hepatitis) will get you banned from some jobs until it is cleared up. The risk to others is too high.

Disabilities do not threaten others, unless the disabled person is doing something that their disability makes unsafe. That's why people with very limited vision are not allowed to drive, for example. There is no country and no place where a kitchen or food preparation worker diagnosed with typhoid fever or a contagious skin infection doesn't cause a descent of the authorities:
http://www.indystar.com/article/20130205/LIFE02/130205032/Purdue-food-worker-diagnosed-typhoid-fever-concerns-others-were-exposed

A restaurant worker would be more aware than the general public of these issues. Here, for example, is a UK summary of laws and regulations affecting food preparation workers:
http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/pdf/uk-08033-fitness-to-work-draft.pdf

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LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
The law requires that in all food businesses other than those engaged in primary production (e.g. farmers and
growers) and associated operations:
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“No person suffering from, or being a carrier of a disease likely to be transmitted through food or afflicted,
for example, with infected wounds, skin infections, sores or diarrhoea is to be permitted to handle food or enter
any food-handling area in any capacity if there is an y likelihood of direct or indirect contamination.“ \\

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“Any person so affected and employed in a food business and who is likely to come into contact with food is to report immediately the illness or symptoms, and if possible their causes , to their manager or supervisor.”

These requirements are mainly about people who handle food, but they also extend to managing the risk from contam
ination from other infected workers and visitors to rooms and areas where open food is stored or handled, e.g.
managers, maintenance contractors, inspectors etc.

Breach of the obligations set out in this paragraph constitutes an offence under Regulation 17 of the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006. [div]

Do you think this is discrimination? By definition, discrimination is unreasonable.