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What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
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What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
Company to give paid time off during menstrual periods. Does this help or hurt a woman's work image, or image in general?

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My understanding is the 'severity' of menstrual symptoms is quite variable. I have a cousin who is incapacitated by hers, I have other relatives barely bothered.

Seems rather imprecise to deem all the women beset the same way.
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(March 3, 2016 at 9:52 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Company to give paid time off during menstrual periods. Does this help or hurt a woman's work image, or image in general?

If the company choose to do this, then it doesn't hurt women at all. If it's mandated by law, then it would certainly hurt a woman's work image, because companies would have even less incentive to hire women. From a purely financial perspective, if you had two equally qualified candidates: a man and a woman, why would you hire the woman when you would be forced to give her paid time off for a few days (or more) every month? It sounds harsh but that's the way business works.

Also, I see the potential for fraud. A woman could be on contraception which prevents periods, but a company wouldn't know that, nor be able to (it would violate doctor / patient confidentiality), so the woman could potentially get paid time off when it's not even necessary.
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
I don't think it would be unreasonable to require a doctor's note specifying the nature of the problem, though.  You want to take advantage of the program you have to provide medical documentation that it is necessary.

We had a provision in our CBA with the government that management could require a medical note for an illness lasting more than 3 days.  That provision required that the note be referred to the Regional Medical Officer - who was a doctor - and could not be reviewed by some manager who would have trouble getting the cap off an aspirin bottle.  The system worked surprisingly well.
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#5
What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
As many of you know, an orgasm relieves the menstrual pain.
http://www.organicauthority.com/health/n...elief.html

Knowing this, it is a travesty that corporations do not offer on the job relief. There should be a hung stud on staff that goes around stabbing his cock in these wining bitches. If he does a good enough job they won't need his services for 9 months.
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
(March 3, 2016 at 1:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't think it would be unreasonable to require a doctor's note specifying the nature of the problem, though.  You want to take advantage of the program you have to provide medical documentation that it is necessary.

A doctor's note saying that the person generally has bad periods, or a doctor's note for each period?

The former would not be unreasonable. The latter would be an annoyance and I'd imagine most women wouldn't even bother. Going to a doctor every month in order for them to write a note saying you have your period seems a bit excessive!
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
True on the second part, it would be a way of offering the illusion of a benefit but not making it really possible to use.

Still, and the article is way too vague to know this, if a policy is set up and in order to participate it is necessary for a doctor to certify a recurring issue with menstruation - and the doctor would usually know - I see no problem with it.  As the company exec said, they have no problem with their workforce defrauding them.  Obviously, that wouldn't apply everywhere.  Hell, in the land of the free and the home of the brave it is rare that a company offers paid maternity leave so we have a ways to go.
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(March 3, 2016 at 1:26 pm)KUSA Wrote: As many of you know, an orgasm relieves the menstrual pain.
http://www.organicauthority.com/health/n...elief.html

Knowing this, it is a travesty that corporations do not offer on the job relief. There should be a hung stud on staff that goes around stabbing his cock in these wining bitches. If he does a good enough job they won't need his services for 9 months.

Damn, I think I'm spotting a little right now . . .
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
Maybe times have changed, but the women I worked with at the defense contractor would be loathe to have all the men in the office know FOR SURE when they are on the rag, and when they're not.

Hell, the lady across the cube from me was preggers and miscarried and I didn't know for a year and a half afterwards.
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
Never found out if the women in our section all synchronized or not. Can't imagine how having all this apparent to the rest of the workforce would be in anyone's interest.
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