3 Days Off A Month For Women

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61477168

What are your thoughts on this?

[andres]

[email protected] never mentioned disciplinary actions. Just pointing out the difficulty of getting other people in at short notice to cover the workload .

[youngmafbog]

Well that would help the equality in the workplace wont it.

If someone is certifiable ill then just take sick. Everyone else needs to crack on. Or accept you wont be getting any promotions or indeed any employment.

[barry1010]

As I said earlier, young - a person can be disciplined for taking too much sick leave, especially if it is mainly just a day or two.
My workplace gave 6 months full pay sick leave each year but I can't think of anyone that took that much, with the exception of one man who had a stroke.
Just because the option is available it doesn't mean it will be taken by every woman in the right age bracket.

[1ozzy]

//My workplace gave 6 months full pay sick leave each year//

Any positions vacant?

[1ozzy]

I can get sick!!

[youngmafbog]

No Barry, but simply making the option available to one sex is going to be seen as sexist. And it is. Equality is eqality, no exceptions.

And if you think something wouldn't put potential employers off hiring a woman, all women, then you need to think again.

[1ozzy]

//but simply making the option available to one sex is going to be seen as sexist//

LOL, please tell me when men menstruate.

[youngmafbog]

You have, probably wilfully, missed the point.

When you have one rule for a particular sex (either way) it will be seen by many as sexist or not equal.

Dress it how you like and have all the self righteous outrage you want but thats how it will be understood at ground level.

[1ozzy]

Glad I'm not a ground dweller;-)

[barry1010]

young, maternity leave and all the time off women are allowed when pregnant doesn't put good employers off.

The Spanish system proposes that the government would cover the cost, not the employer. Yes, it is blerdy inconvenient when staff don't turn up for work but the women who need to take time off aren't turning up now - whether it is sick leave, emergency annual leave or unpaid leave.
Time off for severe period pain should not be lumped in with sick leave - women will still need the same sick leave provision as men for non-gender based ailments and injuries.

[mushroom25]

// LOL, please tell me when men menstruate. //

oh dear Ozzy, you could be in cancel territory with that one -

look up "Freddie the Seahorse"......

[youngmafbog]

Barry, you can have all the outrage you like, but the reality is people running companies have to be hard nosed. Or they go broke.

This will potentially alienate all women who will get lumped into the bucket and make it harder to a) get employment and b) promotion. It also promotes the(wrong in my opinion) view of the 'weaker sex'.

And on the subject of maternity, yes this still puts employers off women of a certain age. And oddly I have seen this from other older women!!

[Zacs-Master]

Very interesting ‘angle’ on the situation, YMB.

[youngmafbog]

It's what happens in the real world ZM.

No, it's not right but that's the way it is. You can legislate all you like but, at present, you can legislate against thought.

[Zacs-Master]

Barry ‘The Spanish system proposes that the government would cover the cost, not the employer’

The UK Govt states that companies can claimback the SMP theypay. They are entitled to claim back at least 92%. Small employers are able to claim back all the SMP plus some compensation.
How is this different to Spain?

[naomi24]

mushroom25, men don't menstruate. They just don't.

[Old_Geezer]

They may have 3 Sundays of their choice.

[MissTerious]

Then 3 days off a month should be allowed for all people who suffer from any painful ongoing conditions. Ridiculous idea.

[burlyshirley]

I probably would have welcomed this when a young single woman (until I went on the pill). My first day every month was HELL, heavy bleeding, clots and terrific pain, but strangely only on the first day. Dad used to give me whisky in hot water, which I hated, but bless him he was trying to help me and I was grateful. I also used the old hot water bottle too. I never took any time off work, just loads of painkillers and muddled through. Would I have been glad of that one day off a month back then - hell yes !!! Somehow though, I can't see it becoming law.

[MissTerious]

It would be a nightmare for most work places. Government hand outs wouldn't help. I would agree that employers should be more understanding. If a law like this happened then employers would avoid employing women again. A backward step.