Protection of employees with defective vision.
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چکیده
An employer has a special duty towards a one-eyed man (Paris v. Stepney Borough Council, I95i) but *does not have a special duty to a man with normal sight because employment could normally continue with good monocular vision. Clearly, a man with very defective vision in one eye needs the same consideration as a one-eyed man so we examined the level of visual acuity which should alert the employer to giving
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British journal of industrial medicine
دوره 24 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1967