Well the R in HR kind of gives the game away don't you think. I've read about Soft and Hard HR policies and in 40+ years in manufacturing industries have never encountered a company that actually runs a Soft policy. Maybe you're the exception.
I did say that all 3 of us had wheedled out persons abusing the systems.
The HR Manager I refer to was head of a County Fire Brigade... I was in distribution and retail management and my hubby worked for the american internet company that everybody buys their presents from and now another distribution company.
None of us are soft... We've always been fair...ensuring for both employers and employees that all the t's are crossed.
My hubby worked in a place where a gentleman was killed when he fell in to a huge mincing machine and nobody knew in the place at the time where the off button was to isolate the machine.
When you've experienced images like that, fought bloody hard yourself to keep your diabetes free from work and dealing with families that lost husbands and fathers and soms in fires then your first thoughts are not to mess people around but to deal with everybody in life in a fair and humane manner in every aspect of life.
I don't feel its correct to tar every company or every HR person with the same brush...many companies are very good towards their employees and wanting them just to be physically and mentally healthy to fulfil their roles, but are of course ensuring that say in the case of working nightshifts in a care home that possible adjustments need to be made to ensure future disruption to staffing levels and of course their service users is minimised. They are quite entirled to do that and would be wrong if they didn't...
I worked in a care home on nights a long while back now as a
T1. 2 staff constantly caring for 46 service users with dementia, old age, incontinence etc... If I didn't go in It would upset the service users too as they knew my working and looked forward to seeing me. So it didn't just impact on productivity and putting staff under more pressure. Also if I didn't go in due to my diabetes, for sure I know that would impact upon the decisions by the Manager as to whether they would ever employ another T1 diabetic on nights again.