UK: Father wins sex discrimination case against PWC after request to work part-time rejected. Women in the same office had requests accepted.

2014-11-04T14:06:42+00:00

Equality not superiority, it cannot be one rule for one gender and one for another

Sounds like his senior was a total dick and I hope they learn from this as well

s_w_ · 2014-11-04T18:55:43+00:00

It really sucks that men have to push so hard for things like this. A woman puts in a request, is told no problem, and she gets to go on with no headache or anyone giving her a hard time. After this, the man in the article will have bad blood between him and who he works for / with at his accounting firm.

I aw similar stuff in the Navy. I was in a department where you went if you joined with being assigned a rate. My department is where the fuck ups went to. So if someone failed heir school, got in trouble, whatever.. They got sent to me department.

But a lot of the people were just people who went in without a rate. In order to be designated, at the time you had to do what was call on the job training. You were required 50 hours, but the rate I wanted required 100. (I ended up staying in my department and making rank as a BM and fell in love with my job, but hated the environment.)

Well females were given time during the work day to do OJT or get qualifications they needed. While males were expected to work and do everything in their spare time. And in my department you have very little down time.

Luckily they've changed the process to strike a rate. When I got out you could just ask for a rate or test once you qualified. before that your department had much more say. I found out after I had struck BM that my department went against my contract. The one I signed when I joined. It guaranteed me a test or school of my choice so long as I qualified within so long of being on board.

My department covered this up to keep me because I was one of the few hard workers and i actually did a good job running things and they could trust me to always do what needed to be done.

With the system that was put into place when I left hopefully what happened to me will be avoided.

In the military you're subject to what they say but in the civilian world there is no excuse for this type of shit.. Glad the guy won, but hate he had to push so hard.

Claude_Reborn · 2014-11-04T23:05:04+00:00

They don't want men to be able to do this for the simple reason that if you give men the same flexibility, then there will be no one around to pick up the slack for all the women who have flex time.

That is the ugly truth of it, and I have seen it in every white collar workplace I have ever been in. Women get all the flexibility, and men suffer because they need to pick up the extra slack.

The work still has to get done, and men end up doing more of it so women can have their flex time. Men questioning this usually have a very short career with the company thanks to the feminists in HR.

marcooni1 · 2014-11-05T08:43:13+00:00

The whole equality thing is back lashing.

Title	UK: Father wins sex discrimination case against PWC after request to work part-time rejected. Women in the same office had requests accepted.
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Date	November 4, 2014 1:58 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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