They say that some call it work and personal conciliation but in view of today's news we see again that we could call it pink unicorns, one and the other would be equally real.
This morning a woman and also a working mother has not been able to go to work at the Food Fair where her company participates with a stand because From Alimentaria a working woman and mother is not allowed, to access the fair by taking her baby to the stand of her company and yes, his company had allowed him to take it.
Alimentaria has made it clear in all its publications, in all its advertisements and in all its social networks that this year it would be prohibited to enter the fair to those under 18 years.
Yes, 18, they have read well and yes, it is clear that the fan is very wide, obviously including two-month-old babies like Nuria's, the mother who has not been able to attend the most important biennial food fair in her sector today, something that she as a professional was very interested in, in fact and despite being obviously of maternal leave since her baby is only two months old, she had talked to her company and they had contacted the organization so that Nuria could attend this biennial event of great importance in your sector and therefore for your work.
Measuring all children with the same standard is unfair, that is evident. It is not the same a two-month-old baby in a backpack attached to his mother who will only need to sleep and eat than a sixteen teenager, neither in his behaviors, nor in his needs obviously!
In any case, any organization has the right to filter wherever and however as responsible for an event of this nature, it seems unfair, macho or lacking in all logic, this of the opinions you know, we each have ours but not it would be more than just an accredited responsible for this fair could have Assess the case of Nuria when Food was notified of the situation of this worker who has been attending this fair for fifteen years for work reasons and always with the approval of the company where he works, including the case today with his two-month-old baby.
History repeats itself, too much
What is especially shocking is that in this case We talk again that it is a worker, something that reminds a little of what happened at the Mobile Worl Congress where from what we have been able to know later there were even nursing rooms but they did not allow infants to enter since they did not allow minors to enter, yes sometimes organizations They can be that consistent, you see.
As is logical and as usual, social networks have turned to the case of this working woman that she has been attending this food fair with her company for 15 years and that now she has not been allowed to enter because she has a nursing baby who not only has to feed physically and emotionally, as she told us "If the fair had been two months ago there would have been no problem because the baby was in my gut" Now it is the same but abroad.
There have been numerous tweets that, since she has commented on the injustice of the event, have been happening expressing support for this person and outrage for a rigid organization until paralysis and for a discrimination to a person, to a woman, just because she had been a mother just two months ago.
Four times we have tried to talk via telephone with the organization of Alimentaria Throughout today we will explain what happened before publishing this post and it has been impossible to get it, we also know that there have been numerous tweets that different users have sent them and at the time of making this publication they have not received an answer either .
Much to do on issues of conciliation, today it is again evident that visibility is already more than achieved, that the involvement of society also but that companies, some companies, still do not pay attention to what it means to reconcile, perhaps because there is still no law that forces them to open their eyes.
Update
After publishing this entry at 17:35 this afternoon, from Alimentaria and through your twitter account we have found an official statement from the organization of this fair. We are very happy about the change of criteria and the flexibility of a norm that does not help the labor and family conciliation of working mothers who want to attend the fair for work reasons.
Official statement by the organization regarding the entry of nursing babies @Fira_Barcelona pic.twitter.com/NXcrVNzitb
- Alimentaria (@Alimentaria) April 25, 2016
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