Can an employer ask this?

poet123

FOX_HOUND wrote: »

You wouldn't carry out a review in public, would you? Referring to times of the month. This is madness.

The review could be done in a quiet corner of an open plan office, or in an office with the door ajar, your underlying implication is that the employer was in some way acting covertly or improperly, when you do not know the facts. The OP has not answered the question about whether there is an issue with performance which is trackable to certain dates.

If, as an employer you received a complaint that an employee was performing below par regularly and that it was to do with her period what would you do? Pass the buck to a woman or deal with it?

LadyMissA

poet123 wrote: »

The review could be done in a quiet corner of an open plan office, or in an office with the door ajar, your underlying implication is that the employer was in some way acting covertly or improperly, when you do not know the facts. The OP has not answered the question about whether there is an issue with performance which is trackable to certain dates.

If, as an employer you received a complaint that an employee was performing below par regularly and that it was to do with her period what would you do? Pass the buck to a woman or deal with it?

How the hell would anyone know what it was due to unless they have asked you.

poet123

LadyMissA wrote: »

How the hell would anyone know what it was due to unless they have asked you.

Which is perhaps what he was trying to do......

I could certainly tell you what my colleagues issue is to do with, and if I were to complain about her I could tell my line manager what that issue is. That could have happened here.

LadyMissA

poet123 wrote: »

Which is perhaps what he was trying to do......

I could certainly tell you what my colleagues issue is to do with, and if I were to complain about her I could tell my line manager what that issue is. That could have happened here.

No he was assuming not asking

Psychic, are you? I'd never know if someone was having a health issue that affected their job

FOX_HOUND

poet123 wrote: »

The review could be done in a quiet corner of an open plan office, or in an office with the door ajar, your underlying implication is that the employer was in some way acting covertly or improperly, when you do not know the facts. The OP has not answered the question about whether there is an issue with performance which is trackable to certain dates.

If, as an employer you received a complaint that an employee was performing below par regularly and that it was to do with her period what would you do? Pass the buck to a woman or deal with it?

I do know the facts. The op in the introduction gave us the facts. If someone came to me with tales I would tell them to stop gossiping.

Frogletina

I was once asked when I returned to work from an illness if it was due to 'women's problems' It wasn't, but why should my manager have assumed it was?

I discussed this at a union meeting and it was my male colleagues who were most flabergasted at this - and the ones not office based were also outraged that in the office we could not just go to the loo when we wanted/needed to (there was a system we were supposed to adhere to). In an 'emergency?' we could ask our managers to give consent, but as mine was a man I ignored the ruling and just went, and later the system changed anyway.

tescobabe69

FOX_HOUND wrote: »

In the first post it is quite clear that the op believes that her employer was referring to her menstrual cycle. That's enough for me.

She is mistaken, but of course that doesnt matter.
You have a packet of jacobs on your manhood.

tescobabe69

Frogletina wrote: »

I was once asked when I returned to work from an illness if it was due to 'women's problems' It wasn't, but why should my manager have assumed it was?

She assumed nothing.

Please dont fall into the trap.

Frogletina

tescobabe69 wrote: »

She assumed nothing.

Please dont fall into the trap.

She? and what trap?

FOX_HOUND

tescobabe69 wrote: »

She is mistaken, but of course that doesnt matter.
You have a packet of jacobs on your manhood.

You really are disgusting. Normally, you attack the unemployed, poor and vulnerable on DT.

Now you suggest that I'm on these boards to pick up women.

For your information I'm in a long term relationship over 11 years. With no 'slip ups'. Behave yourself.