Posted on 03/05/2018 9:13:38 AM PST by Morgana
lifeping
When I first saw the headline, I did not think of this as an abortion issue, but as a problem where women get free health care and a salary while having a baby. Too many years in the military where some women used the pregnancy to get out of a lot of assignments.
And there was never talk of an abortion, because that would put them back at risk of the assignment.
Simple
Just give her a cash register job for awhile
Stupidity
Begin redefining jobs only some men are strong enough to do and quit hiring women to do those jobs!
Damn the feminizes to sue for the "right" to force women into jobs they are clearly not physically designed to do!!!
Honest physicians will gladly admit women do not have the physical make up to do certain things men can and do; while men clearly are limited at multi-tasking simple things women do with little to no effort.
Don't like it - take your complain up to God!
Why should you get paid if you don’t work? If a man breaks his leg, why should his employer pay him? He gets unemployment insurance and that is what pregnant women should get rather than more that men that can’t work. ?
Once a doctor notifies an employee about a medical condition (of any kind) that requires limitations in occupational duties, the employer has to act as if the employee is an enormous risk for a work-related injury that would make the employer liable for substantial damages.
Cash register jobs at these big-box retailers require heavy lifting.
I can’t get that sort of job at Wally World because I can’t perform the duties it requires. Mainly standing, walking, and lifting.
For that reason, Wally World doesn’t give me paychecks.
Why does a business have to pay someone who can’t do the job, if she’s pregnant?
maybe she’s not qualified to be a cashier. so, not so simple.
perhaps she’s in a warehouse/stocker position, where no reasonable accommodation can be made for an employee not being able to lift anything.
Just give her a cash register job for awhile
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You assume this is a retail outlet type store. But Walmart has
warehouse facilities where items are stored in bulb for distribution to
retail outlets. This article is unclear as to the type store involved.
If the woman required a lifting restriction, this assumes that she was having a complication of her pregnancy. The doctor did not want her lifting. Was she assessed by Walmart’s company physician also? If she could not lift more than 5lbs, that’s almost incompatible with normal every day activity, and she would be exposed to possible injury.
In a normal healthy pregnancy women are capable of performing normal day to day tasks until they’re close to delivery, then they are so big, they’re bouncing into things.
I think, we need more information on this. She did she need lifting restrictions?
Exactly.
In many companies if your doctor restricts your duties, you go on workers comp until cleared with a full release.
A pregnancy is no different...
The whole idea of Roe vs Wade was Jane roe was getting fired from her job because she was pregnant. She could not get an abortion. All Roe did was win her the right to kill her baby not keep her job. This is what wal mart et al wants her to do, kill her baby to keep her job. To them money comes before anything else. The baby be damned. Had Roe vs wade really been about women’s rights it would have been about women not losing a job while being pregnant.
>>Cash register jobs at these big-box retailers require heavy lifting.
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At both Target and WM I have seen wheelchair-bound individuals that clearly cannot lift anything heavy working the registers.
So pregnancy CAN be accommodated.
What kind of job did she have that required heavy lifting? Couldn’t they have her stocking shelves?
I’ve worked at wal mart! There are other jobs they could give her Wal Mart just likes to be difficult! She’s pregnant and they don’t want to be responsible if she miscarriages. They consider her a potential liability and want the problem removed. They will settle this out of court but to them it’s cheaper than if she lost the baby on their site.
That would work if she didn’t she said she didn’t intentionally get pregnant (I don’t know what happened but there I was, pregnant). I mean if a guy breaks his leg I’m sure he didn’t do it intentionally. So in this case maybe UI? Disability?
I’m guessing that after a group CPR session, the Walmart legal department immediately notified the manager to reassign the employee to a job that doesn’t require lifting.
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