Garuda conducts hands on (.)(.) exam on F/A candidates during interviews

[Denny Yen 0]

 

Air hostess applicant 'had breasts checked for implants during job interview'

By RICHARD SHEARS

Last updated at 2:56 PM on 24th August 2011

 

Dozens of women applying for air hostess jobs with an Indonesian airline were ordered to strip nearly naked and have their breasts handled in medical check-ups, one of the applicants claimed today.

 

She said Garuda - Indonesia's main airline - wanted to screen out women who had tattoos on their breasts or who had had breast implants.

 

As part of the medical check-up, they had to strip down to just their pants, the woman making the allegations claimed.

 

Declining to be named - because she said she still wanted the coveted job - the woman said the breast checks were carried out at the airline's South Korean branch in Seoul.

 

The applicants hoped to snare one of the 18 positions being offered for flight attendants.

 

'The hand examination on breast was held since those with implants can have health issues when air pressure falls during flights,' the South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted an airline official as saying.

 

The official said cabin crew were banned from having tattoos and workers hired in other countries such as Japan and Australia were also subjected to a similar examination.

 

However claims about the check-ups have angered women's rights groups, which described the process as unnecessary and intrusive.

'I wonder if such a practice is acceptable in Indonesia,' said Ms Kim Da-Mi, who works with the Sexual Violence Relief Centre in Seoul.

 

A spokesman for South Korea's main airline, Korean Air, described the tests as 'bizarre'.

 

He said: 'We've never heard of or done such check-ups on flight attendants but I wonder if this means that passengers with breast implants should not fly also.'

 

At Garuda Indonesia's office in Seoul, a spokesman said the medical tests should have followed routine procedures - and those do not include such examinations.

 

'We are investigating the matter by questioning managers and the doctor who was in charge of the check-up,' said spokesman Park Sung-Hyun. 'This is very embarrassing.'

 

It has not been revealed whether the doctor is female or male.

Flight attendant jobs are keenly sought by South Korean women, enticed by high pay and travel opportunities.

 

Thousands prepare for years, attending beauty salons and ensuring they have a high education standard before applying for vacancies.

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029485/Indonesia-airline-check-air-hostess-applicants-breasts-implants-job-interview.html#ixzz1W0lP7aYC

[Y. J. Foo 0]

Unless if we're talking about those rumoured bomb implants, I'm not sure how probable these things explode mid-air.

 

Then again, maybe next time TG will check the applicants' to make sure they are indeed real girls...

[Isaac 0]

Then again, maybe next time TG will check the applicants' to make sure they are indeed real girls...

They don't have to do this because they only have to check their ID with the national registrar. It's something like our IC that even number for girls and odd number for guys.

[Ikman Ikreza 0]

Garuda denies breast examination on applicants..

 

More : http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=610322

[Johan Z 0]

In another article I read, the hands-on doctor was a male. A paper work from a doctor confirming implant-free should be sufficient rather than having it done by an airline. Really disgraceful.

[Waiping 12]

They don't have to do this because they only have to check their ID with the national registrar. It's something like our IC that even number for girls and odd number for guys.

 

Our IC may not be such a good example.

[Cire 0]

If there's any truth in this, what's the rational idea to warrant such search/examination?

 

Fear of poor posture due to the weight, and may tip forward (the person..) and injure a passenger?

[Waiping 12]

If there's any truth in this, what's the rational idea to warrant such search/examination?

 

Fear of poor posture due to the weight, and may tip forward (the person..) and injure a passenger?

 

If you are seated on the aisle seat and she lean forward to the passenger next to you, it may hit you.

[BC Tam 2]

Our IC may not be such a good example.

I like the 'local flavour' of that

 

If you are seated on the aisle seat and she lean forward to the passenger next to you, it may hit you.

Let us be realistic lah, only in extreme turbulence

Or am I missing out on something here ?

[Denny Yen 0]

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/493310.html

 

“A” had a shocking experience recently when she sat for an employment examination for female flight attendants on the state-run Indonesian carrier Garuda Airlines. The airline instructed her and all the other applicants to strip to their underwear and submit to a health examination by a male physician.

 

“It was really embarrassing,” A said. “I was practically naked.”

 

“Even though I was humiliated, I could not protest under the circumstances” of the test, she added.

 

According to accounts from applicants and an official with the airline, Garuda received hundreds of applications after advertising for flight attendant positions in South Korea in late June. The company had been recruiting South Koreans for flight attendant positions. The airline conducted the physical examination in July after selecting a group of 100 or so applicants through a document screening and initial interview. Applicants underwent the examination dressed only in brassieres and underpants, with an Indonesian male doctor and female airline employee present.

 

In particular, the process included an examination in which the applicant removed her brassiere while covered in a blanket, lay down, and had her chest palpated with a medical instrument by the male doctor.

 

An official with Garuda Airlines explained that rigorous examinations are conducted to check for tattoos for religious reasons in Indonesia, a majority Muslim country. The official said the chest palpation was carried out because of the danger that women with breast implants could suffer health problems under circumstances of a drop in air pressure within the cabin during flight.

 

 

The official added that the procedure and its purpose were explained to the applicants, and that their consent was obtained before the examination.

 

“Although the procedures vary from airline to airline, physical examinations are a necessary process, and our branches in countries like Japan and Australia conduct similar examinations,” the official said.

 

But A said that she merely submitted to the examination because she was told it was a requirement for applicants, and that she did not receive information beforehand about what it would entail.

 

“Had I known what kind of examination it would be, I would not have agreed to it,” she said.

 

South Korean airlines called Garuda’s physical examination “unacceptable.” An official at one domestic carrier said, “During the hiring process, we measure an applicant’s swimming ability to see if he or she can help passengers in cases of emergency, but we did not have any physical examinations that involve feeling for breast implants.”

 

At another domestic airline, an official asked, “If there is a danger of health problems, then wouldn’t that mean you cannot let female passengers with breast implants on the plane?”

 

A said the problem is not restricted to Garuda Airlines.

 

“There have often been cases where foreign airlines have presented ridiculous conditions during the employment examination process, saying things like, ‘We have to check for tattoos while we are testing your swimming ability, so put on a bikini.’”

 

“The applicant is in a vulnerable position, so she really has to grin and bear it no matter how unpleasant it is,” A added.

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

Pretty invasive if true, isn't it... But then there are lots of professions where you can legally have someone strip off...

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Garuda - Korean cabin crew applicants: untrue reports in Korean media

 

On August 24, 2011, several Korean media interviewed 10 Korean cabin crew applicants after they had completed the final stage of the Garuda cabin crew selection process, conducted at the Garuda office in Seoul, Korea.

 

According to Chosun.com, one of the online media belonging to the "Chosun Co" group, the largest and most influential media in Korea, one of the applicants said, "We feel really embarrassed about this article which isn’t true."

 

"We are not fools. If the doctors really touched our breast, don’t you think all 27 ladies would have done something about it? All the applicants that underwent the physical check-up were told to keep their bras on and wear an examination gown, and during that time, doctors only examined their chest.

 

Earlier media reports mentioned that doctors conducting the physical examinations of Korean cabin crew applicants behaved in an improper manner during the physical check-up.

 

As we have previously informed, Garuda Indonesia has denied any allegations and declared the reports and incident as totally untrue. Korean flight attendants applying to become Garuda Indonesia’s cabin crew are required to follow a physical examination conducted by doctors who perform according to the standards of their profession and are bound by the Hippocratic Oath. In addition, during the entire examination, the doctors were accompanied by a female local staff and a Korean citizen to assist in providing the necessary explanations regarding the physical and health examinations.

 

On 27 July 2011, Garuda Indonesia carried out a selection process of 27 cabin crew candidates of which five failed the tests and will not continue to the next selection stage.

 

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