A company is planning to introduce a "period policy" to allow female staff to work flexibly around their menstrual cycles. Co-Exist in Bristol says women will be allowed to take time off during their period and make up the time later. Director Bex Baxter told the Bristol Post she had seen women at work "bent over double" in pain but unwilling to go home which was "unfair". Menstrual leave exists in Japan, parts of China, South Korea and Taiwan. It is thought the company is one of the first firms to introduce it in the UK. 'Willy nilly' Miss Baxter said criticism of menstrual leave came "from a place of fear". She told the BBC: "Women don't want to feel they are less employable than men if they are taking time off [for periods]." Co-Exist employs 24 people, seven of them men. Ms Baxter said the details of the policy had not yet been worked out but would be discussed at a seminar later this month. She said there would inevitably be a fear of lack of fairness or of women taking time off "willy nilly" but added: "We want to create a policy that trusts people - we don't want to create something that... doesn't recognise the needs of the business."
don't know what to say about that, what a load of bollocks or good on the company? tending to side with what a load of bollocks mind.
My lass had a spell while on medication where she was keeled over in agony. Work? She couldn't get out of bed. So it's good for the genuine lasses. But it's easily going to exploited and will be.
The human rights activists and feminists will be along imminently to point out that employees have no rights to know when a woman is having her menstrual cycle so they are entitled to take off as much time as they want on full pay. Welcome to 21st Century Britain people. If you're a white, heterosexual male, hand your voice box in at the door.
Hold on. Intelligent question coming up. (I think) When lasses are all in the same place around each other, all of the time, can't something happen to whatever happens and can't that then make them all 'come on' at the same time? They'd be no switchboard operators and nobody to clean the office, for one week, every month.
Constantly stepping over them at work like. They do like to make a fuss. ****! Jerry's gonna shoot me when she turns up.
Plus they'd be easy to detect by the enemy. Dogs love a good trout, they can sniff them from 5 miles away.
Crazy isn;t it - I was a union rep until my day job became so busy I literally had no time for it. But when I was a rep - I found they had groups for Young members (uner 18), elderly members (over 60) LGBT, Women, Black/Ethnic minority. I am male and 40 - I fit into none of those groups - so literally there is a union group for everyone but a straight white male aged between 18 and 60!
Oh there's a group mate, it's called the 'Stand over there, look at the floor and keep your mouth shut, you subhuman piece of **** society'.
I think the reasoning behind this - see her last quote, is sound - hope it works and make all businesses value their employees - it will probably be abused by some but hope all employee 's help to police it with peer pressure - then all round
Harvard will no longer call its dormitory leaders "house masters". It is the latest controversy in months of protests at US universities about the legacy of slavery. The decision by Harvard to use the term "faculty deans" to describe the lead advisors of student dormitories, instead of "house masters", is to do with the word's reminiscence of slavery in the US.
