3 Days Off A Month For Women

[tiggerblue10]

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

What are your thoughts on this?

[pastafreak]

Do you think employers could get away with such a backwards step? Would they be able to find enough qualified men to fill the slack?
If it works in other countries, why not here?

[MissTerious]

And same as Shirley in my young days. First day of periods were always a nightmare when young.

[naomi24]

MissTerious, //If a law like this happened then employers would avoid employing women again. //

And who could blame them? Excellent point.

[Samuraisan]

In Spain, if your employee goes off on maternity leave, 4 months, and you need someone to cover for her, the state will pay the social security ( 40% appr. of her salary) for the new girl and the wages of the pregnant/new mother. So businesses are o.k., someone has a new temporary job and new mother is having 4 months with her new baby. If the business doesn't need a cover, they still have to pay new mother's ss, but state pays her salary. Last year father's paternity leave came in, but I'm not sure of the rules, my son got 3 months, same conditions I think.

[Ellipsis]

If these women are that much in pain that they can't work, what's the point of having them in to work anyway?

But if they can work then they should work. Lots of people work with chronic pain.

The answer is probably better drugs, but then you get the problem of people refusing to take them ...

[tiggerblue10]

Makes you wonder how women coped before pain killers and sanitary products.

[sandra4444]

Is this on top of the time out/off for washing their hair.

[Patsy33]

Just imagine if it were men that had the painful periods.. They'd probably take a week off!

[sandra4444]

They would be better by Saturday for the football.