Call Center Manager to Pregnant Employee: We Don’t “Pay You to Pee”

[Omaha Steve]

http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/12/04/call-center-manager-to-pregnant-employee-we-dont-pay-you-to-pee/

A lawsuit against National Processing of America — an inbound/outbound call center in Kansas City, KS — claims that the company fired an employee due to her high-risk pregnancy.

April Roller, who had previously been promoted to management in January of 2011, says the company tried to “accommodate” her morning sickness by offering her a larger wastebasket to vomit into. This would limit how frequent her trips to the restroom would be.

RIGHT. MAKE THE PREGNANT LADY PUKE INTO A BASKET IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY.
AND THEN CALMLY SLIDE IT BACK UNDER HER DESK.

Roller also claims that National Processing delayed her family leave paperwork and reprimanded her for wearing the special shoes she needed for her swollen feet. She was eventually demoted and then forced to transfer due to her condition, a transfer she refused:

FULL story at link.

[SoCalDem]

1. Employees are cogs-in-the-machine n/t

[REP]

2. Try having a non-pregnancy-related disease that necessitates using the bathroom while at work

Same story, even with proper paperwork. ADA only exists for those in wheelchairs in some minds.

[peacebird]

3. Good grief. Like vomiting in a trashcan at her desk is not going to be a "distraction" for others...

She is pregnant. The managers need to get a grip. I hope she sues the crap out of them.

[malaise]

4. When did America turn into this place with nasty scumbag employers?

30 Years of Reaganomics is my guess

[rocktivity]

5. If her morning sickness is that severe and her pregnancy that high-risk

she should be on sick leave.


rocktivity

[former-republican]

6. Maybe she has bills to pay , a lot of sick people go to work

Not everyone has a state or federal job where they have paid sick days.

[rocktivity]

13. Fortunately for her co-workers

what she has isn't contaigous...I think...


rocktivity

[KatyaR]

17. Most women slog through any sickness during pregnancy

so they can save their paid leave time for their maternity leave. If you only get 2 weeks of paid leave a year and you need to take 6-8 weeks or longer, you want to save up as much time as possible, unless you can go on short-term disability.

[white_wolf]

7. Maybe they should give her maternity leave?

Oh wait that would require their CEO's to lose a few dollars and we can't have that now can we?

[former-republican]

9. I'm sure she could have had a medical leave if requested but

I'm thinking her decisions were based on her personal finances.
It's just the way it is for most private sector workers in the country.

[riqster]

10. True where I work

Can't keep the roof overhead with 1/2 or no pay.

[former-republican]

11. Where I work it's no pay for medical leave. They do offer a insurance plan that will

pay you if you are on medical leave . You have to be out at least 7 days before collecting so either way you lose a weeks pay.

It's not a bad deal but some employees can't afford a additional $35.00 a week pay deduction
Our health care premiums went up another $70.00 a month and the deductible went up another $1900.00 this year alone.

Pretty soon we will be looking at our paychecks and it will be nothing but deductions

[riqster]

15. And the Repubes want to tax those deductions (NT)

[Panasonic]

8. Then change the law to fully paid FMLA, and guarantees a job after completion.

How many nations in the world pays for their employees to have a child and raise it for at least 6 months?

[Omaha Steve]

18. What about smaller companies?

Fewer than 50 employees the company doesn't have to use FMLA.

[The Straight Story]

19. My idea - fewer than 50, it is a write off

or taxpayer subsidized which goes up to, say, 80 employees on a gradually sliding scale (below 50, you pay 10%, then 20%, etc) and drop paid weeks to 6 and 6 unpaid. Or something along those lines

[HockeyMom]

12. Not just pregnant, but ALL women

Decades ago I had a boss complain that I went to the bathroom too much during "my time of the month". I told them well if you want to replace my chair every month because there is menstrual blood all over it because I cannot go to the bathroom, then fine. YOU spend that money for a new chair. They shut up after that.

[Ilsa]

14. What do her shoes have to do with her

Call center job? Geez, this is enough, I bet, all by itself. Would they fire someone on crutches? For wearing glasses?

[derby378]

16. Can we turn Kansas into a union state?

That would kill that sort of nonsense real quick. Unionize National Processing of America!

[Dorian Gray]

20. She should have started peeing in that basket

hourly to make everyone uncomfortable.

Sounds like they deserve to be sued.