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What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
March 3, 2016 at 9:52 am
Company to give paid time off during menstrual periods. Does this help or hurt a woman's work image, or image in general?
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/b...ees/nqcbT/
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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
March 3, 2016 at 12:05 pm
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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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
March 3, 2016 at 1:04 pm
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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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
March 3, 2016 at 2:03 pm
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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RE: What is you thought(s) on this work policy?
March 3, 2016 at 2:21 pm
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?
March 3, 2016 at 2:39 pm
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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