Television presenter Steph McGovern has revealed that a gene-Z employee asked her to get a paid day off to get a tattoo because it would help her help 'mental health'.
The former BBC -Gastheer said that the young employee tried to justify the request by saying that it was for a 'medical agreement' and that it was important.
“Many young people work in the companies I have and recently one of the employees wanted a paid day off to get a tattoo,” she told her fellow gastsheer Robert Peston on the rest is money podcast on Thursday.
'So when we said you had to take that out of your annual leave, they said: “No because it is a medical appointment. It is for my mental health, it is really important to me. '
Mrs. McGovern said she felt obliged to give them the day off because of the fears she would be canceled or the employee would hurt himself.
“The fundamental problem is that everything has now been medical,” she said. 'So it is really difficult as an employer to meet everyone's needs.
'It is really difficult to work out real needs and she may think that she needed that for her mental health and who are we to decide or not?
“So you have to treat everyone the same because you don't have a choice.”
Television presenter Steph McGovern has revealed that a gene-Z employee asked her to get a paid day off to get a tattoo because it would help her to help 'mental health'
Mrs. McGovern said she felt obliged to give them the day off because of the fears she would be canceled or the employee would hurt himself
But Mr Peston, political editor for ITV News, replied: “You don't treat everyone the same because neither of your other employees comes to you with that kind of request.”
Mrs. McGovern admitted that she thought that employees who ask for such unusual requests to take 'the p **s', but felt that she could not be 'the judge' of what a real psychological disorder was.
In another case, she shared how another young employee refused to clean up at the end of a shift because they thought the role was 'too triggering'.
“You eventually try to make your way without insulting everyone with all these disorders and things that are medical,” she added.
Earlier this week it was revealed that one in ten working age people in the UK is now claiming at least one type of health or disabled benefit.
These figures were compared to a third by five years ago with the largest increase in claimants among young people, with 1.2 million under 25 years of age that they are too sick to work.
Mental health is said to be one of the main reasons why people leave the work, according to a PWC survey
The prime minister admitted that reforms were needed to prevent young people from being 'stuck in a world of benefits' while the welfare account has gone 'through the roof'.
In attempts to save £ 5 billion, Sir Keir Starmer was planning to make it more difficult to claim benefits that was received with recoil from his members of parliament.
