Filling the GAP in HR services: Pregnancy myths shattered with a rant…
I got an email from a business coach the other day, and halfway through it, I felt like I’d been slapped.
In the middle of a perfectly acceptable rant about poor service, the rant segued into saying how no business owner should ever employ a woman of childbearing age, as they “take a year off on maternity leave – again and again”!
Ignoring the gross over-simplification that all women always get pregnant, it was interesting that he thought pregnancy was the biggest thorn in an employer’s side.
We work at the “sharp end” with staff issues, and I can tell you straight away that it’s absolutely nonsense.
In fact, the reality is that 95% of the staff issues we deal with are to do with men over the age of 30.
Very occasionally we have had a “tricky” pregnancy situation to resolve. (By occasionally, I mean two in the last 14 years):
