Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses’ inability to tell them which offices are open

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Yeahhhhh I am not a lawyer but I think that might actually be illegal, specifically because of the explicitly different treatment based simply on gender.

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      9 months ago

      Someone might be able to argue constructive dismissal too, if the job that they get after leave is worse than the job that they had before they went on maternity leave.

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      9 months ago

      Would it still be illegal if it’s based on time? Like I’ll make this up but suppose their policy was men get 2 weeks paternity leave, but women get 2 months maternity. It might actually make sense then.

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          9 months ago

          No, but we are still in the era of mom has to physically annihilate her body in order to produce a child, and also in the era of mom requires actual physical recovery time before performing strenuous physical activity. I get the equity in offering dads extra leave to help take care of mom but it’s disingenuous to suggest that they both have the same requirements.

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            9 months ago

            It should be identical leave for both parents regardless. This is one reason women are paid less, they miss more time than men which delays their career progression.

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        9 months ago

        Surely there’s a legal way to carry on fucking women over.

        • Dran@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I don’t think it is unreasonable to tell a man or a woman that if you take 3-6 months off that someone else might take your role.