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Do our Employee conduct rules constitute Discrimination?
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I work for a company that offers education and training services on a 1:1 basis. We pair an instructor with a customer for the duration of a training segment which could last for many months. Our instructors spend hours at a time with a customer and small interruptions or distractions can significantly degrade the quality of instruction and customer's experience.
We hired an instructor from Turkey who is claiming that we are culturally discriminating against him. This instructor has gone through our training program to achieve his certificates and ratings to be an instructor so he has seen firsthand how instructors are supposed to behave.
We have asked that our instructors avoid taking phone calls, taking unrelated facetime video chats, and eating lunch in front of customers (if possible). All instructors are hourly and can dictate their own schedules.
This employee claims that our policies culturally discriminate against him. Are our policies unreasonable?
discrimination
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I work for a company that offers education and training services on a 1:1 basis. We pair an instructor with a customer for the duration of a training segment which could last for many months. Our instructors spend hours at a time with a customer and small interruptions or distractions can significantly degrade the quality of instruction and customer's experience.
We hired an instructor from Turkey who is claiming that we are culturally discriminating against him. This instructor has gone through our training program to achieve his certificates and ratings to be an instructor so he has seen firsthand how instructors are supposed to behave.
We have asked that our instructors avoid taking phone calls, taking unrelated facetime video chats, and eating lunch in front of customers (if possible). All instructors are hourly and can dictate their own schedules.
This employee claims that our policies culturally discriminate against him. Are our policies unreasonable?
discrimination
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
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asked 1 hour ago
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Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
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When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago
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I work for a company that offers education and training services on a 1:1 basis. We pair an instructor with a customer for the duration of a training segment which could last for many months. Our instructors spend hours at a time with a customer and small interruptions or distractions can significantly degrade the quality of instruction and customer's experience.
We hired an instructor from Turkey who is claiming that we are culturally discriminating against him. This instructor has gone through our training program to achieve his certificates and ratings to be an instructor so he has seen firsthand how instructors are supposed to behave.
We have asked that our instructors avoid taking phone calls, taking unrelated facetime video chats, and eating lunch in front of customers (if possible). All instructors are hourly and can dictate their own schedules.
This employee claims that our policies culturally discriminate against him. Are our policies unreasonable?
discrimination
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
I work for a company that offers education and training services on a 1:1 basis. We pair an instructor with a customer for the duration of a training segment which could last for many months. Our instructors spend hours at a time with a customer and small interruptions or distractions can significantly degrade the quality of instruction and customer's experience.
We hired an instructor from Turkey who is claiming that we are culturally discriminating against him. This instructor has gone through our training program to achieve his certificates and ratings to be an instructor so he has seen firsthand how instructors are supposed to behave.
We have asked that our instructors avoid taking phone calls, taking unrelated facetime video chats, and eating lunch in front of customers (if possible). All instructors are hourly and can dictate their own schedules.
This employee claims that our policies culturally discriminate against him. Are our policies unreasonable?
discrimination
discrimination
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
edited 5 mins ago
Kate Gregory
105k40232335
105k40232335
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
asked 1 hour ago
acpilot
44928
44928
Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
1
When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago
 |Â
show 3 more comments
Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
1
When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago
Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
1
1
When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago
 |Â
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Much easier if you just say what culture, helpful if you mention your locale as well, over here we'd just laugh at him and terminate his employment. Your policies seem reasonable to me without more context
– Kilisi
1 hour ago
Culture and what parts are discriminating? Limit to one question.
– paparazzo
1 hour ago
Modified for a single question.
– acpilot
1 hour ago
1
When I was in the army and the higher army officer asked us not to answer calls during an event, one answered my wife is pregnant and that he would be answering, and the officer did not answer back. You cannot deny somebody answering phone calls when this does not affect his quality of work and when he keeps those phone calls duration being reasonable (see at as a break as well). If it is like a seminar with a projector, then obviously he should be waiting and answer on extreme emergencies only. I agree with the food issue, it is not polite chewing next to the customer.
– Ge Peace
1 hour ago
Additionally you have to acknowledge that him being from another country, he needs to be make a lot arrangements to his new country. Many of those can be scheduled around of work , many are not...
– Ge Peace
57 mins ago