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Thought experiment: a scrappy startup is struggling to stay profitable, they literally (and not figuratively) can't afford their developers leaving for extended
by skizm 8y ago
Thought experiment: a scrappy startup is struggling to stay profitable, they literally (and not figuratively) can't afford their developers leaving for extended amounts of time and they are very upfront about this in interviews. Are they legally allowed to discriminate against candidates that are pregnant or expressed a desire to have children in the near future since it has the potential to kill their business if they hire them?
- MattLaroche 8y agoWhat they should do is say "These are our parental leave policies" (which will be at least legal minimum) and go from there. (Ideally, these should be reasonable leave time government policies and paid by the government, but let's assume we're not going to fix that soon) It's then up to the candidate to accept it or not. It'd be entirely shitty of a company to say "here are our policies" and then reject a candidate who would exercise those policies.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoNope. Doesn't change a thing. Nor should it. That startup's CEO could be in the right place at the right time and convince a VC to fund them.
- jacquesm 8y agoNot so scrappy by the rest of that description.