11.   We then waited in another line to enter a room where, presumably, we would have our medical examinations.

12.   Some of the women complained about the medical examination, saying that they had been mauled about and treated like pieces of meat.

13.   A medical examination between the selection and placement stages of the recruitment process is frequently a condition of engagement.

14.   The use of medical examinations as a means of screening out disabled persons from employment would need to be regulated.

15.   Employers would be prohibited from conducting a medical examination of any employment applicant, except for the single purpose of ascertaining ability to perform job-related functions.

16.   However, once an offer of employment has been made, a medical examination could be required before the new recruit commences employment duties.

17.   In that case, the employer could make the employment offer conditional upon the results of the medical examination.

18.   However, there would be nothing to prevent an employer from requiring disabled applicants to submit to a more extensive medical examination than others.

19.   However, voluntary medical examinations may be conducted as part of an occupational health programme.

20.   Subjecting applicants or employees to medical examinations is not the only means that employers have used to screen out disabled employees.