Employment Issues, Celiacs And The Ada, Any Ideas

I wonder about this very thing vis a vis “meal” meetings. For example, sometimes we will have a candidate in and want to do part of the interview over breakfast, get to know them over lunch and then there are the dreaded dinner meetings. These always take place in restaurants.

I have only been gluten-free for about a year now, but I have had to cancel out of a dinner meeting and avoid a reitree “party” because they were at, what I like to term, “flying flour venues” where even being in the environment is not safe for me- regardless of whether I eat or not. I am pretty confident they cannot make me attend these meetings or “punish” me for not going. The worst is when your friends and colleagues know about the celiac disease but do this anyway because it is so deeply ingrained in our culture here. I tell them why I am cancelling. In my case, they recheduled the meeting for a gluten-free format but the retiree was hurt. I don’t even like it when a colleague brings their gluten lunch into my office to eat over the noon hour.

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I am sure that if you substitute “celiac disease” for a religon with dietary restrictions like islam, jainism or judaism you could in theory get in very big trouble for scheduling a mandatory meal meeting in place that was not kosher or hallal or strictly vegan (and even then served plants that were killed in the harvesting) or for having a company “pig roast” during ramadan. Rightly so. It is insensitive, offensive, churlish, uneducated and I can think of lots worse things to say about it too. And in fact, because somebody’s health is at risk with celiac disease it might even be worse than a breaking a religious stricture. I don’t understand why we feel the need to mix food and business. When you cross that line, you are open to all sorts of problems.

I also wonder about things like bringing in a halloween cake to the office, putting slices on paper plates for people to take and putting these in the mailroom where I set my things or rest my hand. Or the inevitable doughnuts. Or even the after work invitation for a round of drinks. I don’t like it when people are eating a bagel and then hand me a piece of paper with the same hand they just used for the bagel. Sometimes you have to shake off the crumbs. That is not nice. We need gluten sensitivity training!

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I am betting we are covered by the ADA and I am betting we cannot be forced into such situations. I would love to hear what other people have fournd or experienced with this.

Lisa

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