Imagine presenting your job application to the Interviewer, only to be turned down within couple minutes. Why ? Because you are a Smoker. The World Health Organization will not hire anyone who admits to smoking. As of Dec 1.
One quote from this new report:
"Tobacco use is the major preventable cause of death in the world, killing nearly 5 million people annually. Tobacco use is addictive," it said.
The ban on recruitment of smokers is legal under international law, which governs operations at WHO and other U.N. agencies regardless of location, Simpson explained. The ban, therefore, applies across all the agency's sites, including offices in New York, he said.
Read more here And Newsweek here
Friday, December 2
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