What is you thought(s) on this work policy?

[paulpablo]

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.

According to the article the work force is mostly female already.  It just got me thinking about what if the time of the periods are synchronized, that means potentially the employers have agreed to give paid time off to the majority of their workers all at the same time once a month.

My initial reaction to this though is that I'm not against it, the company have chosen to do this, it just seems like it could be potentially bad for the company.