We’ve seen former airline executives get in trouble for their actions years after leaving their jobs. For example, Thai Airways’ former chairman has been jailed for trying to avoid excess baggage fees, while Garuda Indonesia’s former CEO has been jailed for bribery and money laundering.
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Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where the manager returned furious after a meeting with HR.
He called his team together and explained that he was outraged to discover that exactly 40% of sick days were either on a Monday or a Friday, and how stupid did they think he was...?
@The nice Paul
But it wasn't 40% in this case. It was more like 90%. And it wasn't a certain day of the week. It was precisely the day before or after a "long holiday", which only comes around twice a year. So the vast majority of eligible people decided to claim a period break on precisely the same two days in a certain month. Given how many female employees there are in the airline industry, Asiana was actually having trouble staffing flights on these occasions due to shortage of workers.
It's a scam. I am a reproductive health care physician and am willing to bet the majority of female air personnel are using birth control. If they are on combined oral contraception or the implant or depo injections they do not ovulate and do not get menstrual pain.
In fact these are treatments for dysmenorrhoea. it's about time the public learned more basic biology.
In addition orals can be taken continuously in such a way that bleeding is usually minimised or non existent. I worked in London for many years and helped flight crew do exactly this.
Of course there are gynecological conditions which do cause pain as are there conditions of the bowels and kidneys and other areas which also do.
Sick leave should therefore be granted only under the same conditions for all personnel, including men and for all types of medical conditions. The CEO is correct.
So what if these women were scheduling their leave around holidays. Leave (of various kinds) is part of the benefits and compensation of any job. So what if the employees “optimise” that. It’s their right. If I had been the judge I would have been a bit more creative in handing down the punishment...
Hold up, why does it feel like a sizeable number of comments here got deleted? I could've sworn there were more than 4...
"Sick leave should be the same for men and women" do men have recurring periods of severe bouts of pain, blood, and organ damage for up to 10 days every month? If anything the amount of days females are allowed to take off should be more. Whose period lasts only one day? Alas, the law grants them only one, but even so they are entitled to that one day (whether they opt for vaginal inspections to serve the weird perversions of their boss or not). As for the comments on it being a scam- you wouldn't do away with sick leave all together just because the occasional worker sometimes uses their rights to time off on days when they're not really sick.