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I'd like to know how you manage a system like that when not all women are unable to work due to their period. You also have women who don't have periods or have very irregular periods for a variety of reasons. Do they get days off as well?
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How is it any different than any other sick leave? I don't require my people to give me every detail of their condition, if they call in and say they are sick they get the day off. Often they will volunteer that it's a cold or flu, but if it's a menstrual issue or diarrhea I really don't want to know about it.
If women are in THAT much pain during their cycle, and thats understandable, there is FMLA. But it could be hard to get promotions if youre going to be ducking out of important meetings for it once a month. But do a bunch of women in the office really sync cycles? If so, how can a company run if they all duck out of work at once?
How is it any different than any other sick leave? I don't require my people to give me every detail of their condition, if they call in and say they are sick they get the day off. Often they will volunteer that it's a cold or flu, but if it's a menstrual issue or diarrhea I really don't want to know about it.
Yea my boss wants to know the details of why I am sick and then he will decide whether or not if it is a good enough illness to miss work.
I think what this really boils down to is that companies should stop being such greedy tools regarding sick time. Many companies in the US have combined sick time and vacation time, which basically just encourages people to come to work sick since nobody wants to lose vacation time being ill. This does nothing to encourage productivity since how much work is really getting done if a person is in pain or ill all day, and actually makes the situation worse in many cases where the person who is ill comes to work and then shares their flu with everyone else.
It's another example of penny-wise, pound-foolish, which is par for the course today in short-sighted corporate environments.
I don't know who I am to decide whether another woman's cramps or bleeding or other side effects of menstruation are bad enough or not to warrant paid leave. For me, no I wouldn't use it.
How is it any different than any other sick leave? I don't require my people to give me every detail of their condition, if they call in and say they are sick they get the day off. Often they will volunteer that it's a cold or flu, but if it's a menstrual issue or diarrhea I really don't want to know about it.
I took this to mean that they get extra "women's problems" days on top of regular sick leave.
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