Pregnancy test to make the competition as a policeman in Turin

The news appeared in the newspaper The print: you need the negative result of the pregnancy test to be able to participate in the competition for a position as commissioner of the traffic police. According to the rules of the competition, to participate in a physical test, you need to run a thousand meters of running in 6 minutes and 30: in addition to the sports fitness certificate, women must also show the pregnancy test made 5 days before. The test must be negative. For women who are pregnant, the test is postponed. The document would say that it is postponed until before the oral, but the timing can only be dictated by the pregnancy.

The requirement was requested by two municipalities in the province of Turin, Vigone and Torre Pellice. A union threatens a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office, considering it illegitimate and discriminatory. The announcement is at the beginning of May: together with the physical test there are a written and an oral one and you must have a degree.

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Loredana Cristino, national union leader of the CSA local police: «Asking a candidate for a post of traffic policeman for a pregnancy test is discriminatory. Then hoping that in two months she is out of the state she is in is totally insane. We’re not hamsters. ‘ The union’s unveiled accusation is that women are being punished with the excuse of pregnancy.

The print reports the words of the lawyer Vittorio Barosio: «The announcement does not assign to aspiring traffic officers functions such as to require as a requirement for admission to the competition a test of physical efficiency consisting in being able to run 1,000 meters, and moreover in a limited time. It therefore seems to me that the establishment of this requirement is not legitimate “.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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