The owner of a baby clothing company is getting slammed online after denying her employee’s request for remote work while her baby was in the NICU.
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00:00 The owner of a baby clothing company is getting slammed online after denying her employee's
00:05 request for remote work while her baby was in the NICU.
00:08 Former Kite employee Marissa Hughes and her husband had been trying to adopt, and they
00:13 were floored when they got a call about a newborn who needed parents.
00:16 The baby was born at just 22 weeks old.
00:19 Hughes reached out to her employer, Kite Baby, and asked if she could work remotely while
00:23 her new son was in the NICU.
00:25 Hughes claims her request was not only denied, but that she was fired for even making the
00:29 request in the first place.
00:31 Since then, the Kite Baby CEO has issued two apologies.
00:35 The first was met with immediate backlash, as many TikTokers thought it came off as scripted
00:39 and unauthentic.
00:40 In the second apology, the CEO stated that she was the one who made the decision to veto
00:45 Hughes' request to go remote.
00:47 "Sincerely, what went wrong was how we treated Marissa.
00:51 And I was the one that made the decision to veto her request to go remote while she has
01:00 to stay in NICU to take care of her adopted baby.
01:06 And when I think back, this was a terrible decision.
01:10 I was insensitive, selfish, and was only focused on the fact that her job was, had always been
01:18 done on site, and I did not see the possibility of doing it remotely."
01:23 Despite Kite Baby's attempts to remedy the situation, many in the comments are still
01:28 angry and saying that the damage has been done.
01:30 The controversy has started a larger conversation about government-mandated paid leave for new