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Originally Posted by HOWMAR
Marital status (as well as age) are important pieces of info to a DR employer. As a single female is less likely to become pregnant (hopefully) it is important to know her marital status as Dominican Labor Law is very strict in the employer's treatment of pregnant employees. If the employee becomes pregnant, she can not be terminated until 6 weeks after she gives birth. She is also entitled to paid leave of at least 12 weeks. Therefore, never hire a newlywed.
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This calls for some improvisation or maybe its time for quid pro quo and contraceptives in basket on desk... just kidding, distastefully if you may... but I can justify:
Here and there I've heard labor laws that seem unfair for employers in certain instances, but what you mention may be the governments way to substitute the existance for the abscence of social services/circumstances that maybe control infant mortality and mal-nutrition.
Frankly if I were an employer in DR and have a marginally respectable operation in where those eventualities wouldn't effect me I wouldn't think twice about employing a promising employee thats a newlywed. In my opinion if thats the law and I can comply so be it, think of it, if those ladies have questionable support I'd see it as the compensating factor for otherwise relatively cheap pay none the less.
Futhermore in positions of unskilled labor, high turnover and low paying jobs I imagine your provision best suits the company. Its somewhat saddening to think the doors of employment, as limited as openings are in DR, may narrower even more for those unskilled newlyweds that in a sense I imagine need a job more than anyone else. The other side of the argument is that maybe they seek any job that doesn't pay under the table to get pregnant so to say without hopes nor sincere aspirations to integrate with the employers workforce. The latter I'd comment be very isolated circumstance in the common pool of ignorant job seekers, from what I understand people that don't know their rights lost them.
It would be nice to know that employers that have only gone beyond tolerable tolerance levels would apply such policy in HR department and review process. Because imagine that on a grander conscious scale if those details are circumvented to such an extent that well deserving newlyweds with questionable support can go through very horrible times in most crucial moments in their life, because I'm very sure these same workers don't have sufficient for saving. Something to ponder when corporate practice can either put an invisible chasity belt on defenseless women, merit them incapable of being independant or providing a newborn with a malnourished infancy.
I sincerely feel like an idiot and deeply regret starting a thread in such a spurt of the moment emotional manner.
Lesson learned.
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