Overweight and obese people may be discriminated in the selection and recruitment process. Discrimination based on obesity is not defined as a prohibited basis for discrimination by the Anti-Discrimination Act, nor by the Labor Law. Also, very little research has been conducted in Croatia on this socially sensitive topic. Due to the possible discrimination of people on the basis of obesity, the aim of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of management students towards obese people and to find out what their attitudes towards the employment of obese people are. The research was conducted among students of the VERN Polytechnic majoring in Economics of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management. The research was conducted with an online questionnaire and a questionnaire conducted in lectures. A total of 134 subjects participated in the study, of which 48 were male and 86 female. The questionnaire asked participants to define their agreement with certain statements with the help of the Likert scale of attitudes towards obese people and the Bogardus scale of social distance. The results of the research showed that the respondents have positive attitudes towards obese people. Also, respondents do not have a negative attitude towards obese people when hiring them. The Bogardus scale of social distance concluded that the respondents do not mind if the threatened person was their work colleague or the person they employ in their company. From all the above, it is possible to conclude that the respondents would not discriminate obese people in the process of selection and employment. For the purposes of the paper, two interviews were also conducted, one with an extremely obese person and the other with a person who was obese, in order to compare their experiences with the results of the research. The results of the survey did not confirm their experiences, but the reason may be that the respondents have not yet found themselves in a real employment relationship.