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.
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.
