By calling them an 'inconvenience' for something literally every country in the world offers? It's more like further evidence that employers view their workforce as something disposable rather than an asset. And then wonder why there is no loyalty from employees anymore.
Good grief, he didn’t call them an inconvenience, he said the pregnancy was an inconvenience. Big difference. The cost, the down time of that employee...
The only disposable employee to me, is one with a crap work ethic.
This is a stupid trap and you shouldn't get caught in it. The woman is not the inconvenience, the pregnancy is not the inconvenience, it's the fact of having to account for staffing and scheduling that is the inconvenience. It's no less an inconvenience if the government requires parental leave to be offered, it's still an employee being out of the workplace for an extended period of time, shifting of job duties, maybe hiring or training a temp, and all on a schedule out of control of the employer.
There are plenty of things to point to where employers don't value their employees and don't deserve loyalty from their employees. Acknowledging reality isn't one of them.
He didn't call "them" an inconvenience. He called the phenomenon and inconvenience, albeit acknowledging the transcendent value to society. You'd rather he told a liberal lie about how welcoming and accommodating a business is to women? Some women still get sidelined for being pregnant after a dozen years of continuous employment, despite the company's public lies about how woke.