A pregnant employee is late every day. As a leader, should I criticize her?

As the saying goes, there can be no circle without rules. A female employee is pregnant and should indeed receive extra care, but this does not mean that she does not need to abide by the most basic rules.

Being late means getting to work late, which may be just a few minutes or ten minutes. These few minutes or ten minutes will not have any substantial impact on a pregnant woman. It cannot be said that with these ten minutes more, she will be able to rest better; or that with these ten minutes more, her baby will develop better.

This is actually a matter of attitude. If you are late occasionally and there is a special reason, as a leader, you can understand it, but if you are late every day, it will be difficult to get over it.

These few minutes or ten minutes can be solved by getting up ten minutes or half an hour earlier.

As a leader, the most important thing is to be fair and just. She is definitely not the only female employee in the office, there are so many colleagues around you staring at you. If you don't set the rules this time, then next time when other employees get pregnant, they will definitely follow suit. So will you tell them or not?

If you don’t say it, the atmosphere in the entire team will definitely get worse; if you do, others will definitely refute you. When so-and-so was pregnant, she was often late and didn’t see you say anything. Why? Are you trying to get along with me? So, and so on. Therefore, as a leader, you must say something.

My suggestion is that you can talk to her privately and ask her why she is late every day from the perspective of employee care. If there are no insurmountable reasons, a formal warning should still be issued. After all, the company is not a vegetable market, where you can come at any time and leave at any time.