Read this on yahoo's home page today,I guess next year someone there will sue because they had to smell someones stinking ass all day.lol
From yahoo;
Detroit officials are telling workers in city offices to leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and other strongly scented toiletries and items at home.The signs are going up in response to a federal lawsuit, which also awarded $100,000 to Susan McBride, who sued the city under the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming a coworker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and do her job.
The city fought the 2008 suit, citing a lack of a medical diagnosis and arguing that McBride is not disabled. But the move this week to warn workers to refrain from using strong-smelling products is a clear sign the city is following through with some of the measures the judge ordered last month. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."
At some point in our working lives, we all have sat next to someone with a heavy hand on the perfume bottle, hairspray can, or in their choice of deodorants. Dealing with an over-scented coworker can be difficult, but when you've got a medical condition, like asthma, it can literally and negatively affect the air you breath. McBride's attorney, Ann Curry Thompson, says it's not uncommon for stories about a suit like this to be the subject of lots of jokes, but that's part of educating people about the fact that what is merely annoying to one worker can be debilitating to another.
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Next thing they will be telling people to take better baths because midgets get too close to your butt on elevators, and they are afraid of a law suit.
B.O. coming to detroit's Gov. buildings
