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Posted on 02/10/2005 11:50:53 AM PST by pissant
Female workers at carmaker Toyota could soon benefit from 12 days paid menstrual leave each year.
The claim is one of 600 improvements being sought by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) from the company.
Others include employer-provided childcare, 10 per cent annual pay rises for three years and superannuation payments of 15 per cent by 2007.
The union's Vehicle Division has started negotiations with the car manufacturer over a new enterprise bargaining agreement to replace the document that expires later this year.
The agreement would cover about 4000 people of which 10 to 12 per cent were women.
"We're at the working party stage at the moment," said AMWU Vehicle Division federal secretary Ian Jones, who is also chairman of the Federation of Vehicle Industry Unions.
Mr Jones said the thinking behind the menstrual leave provision was "obvious".
"It's the same as why we have maternity leave and parental leave, these are all matters that deal with your working life and issues that you can't ignore," he said.
Advertisement Advertisement"We believe that people should be given that time off to accommodate the circumstances that they find themselves in."
The menstrual leave would be in addition to sick leave.
"A lot of women have terribly bad periods and they are genuinely ill and we simply say that has to be recognised."
It was the first time the AMWU had tried to win menstrual leave provisions, he said.
"Every negotiation we do provides us with pointers to pursue elsewhere, but only where it's relevant, I mean we wouldn't be pursuing menstrual leave in a foundry."
While most of Toyota's workers would not benefit from the extra leave days "unless men can grow a womb", only women who were genuinely ill because of their periods would be entitled to the leave, Mr Jones said.
Comment was being sought from Toyota Australia.
For 40 years feminists have been screeching that men and women are equally able to do the same work. Now they are demanding special considerations for women who "can't" peform *the same as* men on the same job. Which way is it? And if women can't keep up and cost businesses time, money and productivity, why shouldn't businesses be able to hire only men?
BTW, don't these women already get sick days? Is there some reason they can't use them to menstruate?
SO did you fight your way through the shaving cream, after shave, dirty underwear, missed shots at the bowl, a forever rising seat, and wet towels everyday? OMG!!!!
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Yes, and Post #70 as well.
Thought so. Post 70 (sounds like the VFW) still has me chuckling.
Now this is a bloody mess the Aussie's have gotten themselves into.
You have got to be kidding.
Okay ladies, you get your menustral day off from regular duties, but only if you spend it at GITMO, torturing prisoners.
Sounds like this Toyota will be moving some where's else, I'd say.
More evidence that unions are no longer needed.
Still waiting for the pro-union folks from the dead thread to hop on this one and defend them. It ought to be good.
Sweet cheeks,
I am the wrooooonnnnnngggg person to complain about seniors to. ;) My heart-strings are always for kids, old folks, the helpless and animals (in that order).
I spent a decade working in nursing homes where I saw many old folks cast off like stray dogs, live out their last days in sorrow and then die pitifully.
So while you see a guy in a caddy with a cap, too much money and a bad attitude, I see a bed-bound, semi-comatose old woman being treated for bed sores the size of footballs, calling out for her kids (who live near, but won't come to see her because nursing homes upset them).
Ack. :(
SRH= Sperm Retention Headache For days when they're not gettin' any at home, because the wife is off on a menstrual holiday...
Keeping Tabs.....
What about women who've had hysterectomies? Do they get a day off, too?
I have now, officially, heard it all. *Rolleyes*
>>I demand absolute equality in the workplace! If women get "Menstrual Leave", then men should get it too.
Except we'll call it "Gone Fishing"!
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Yep this will give the company due incentive to hire more female workers and promote them.....
Pity it wasn't in effect at Hewlett-Packard. Every day less of Carly Fiorina would have been a good thing.
If women require time off every month due to hormonal imbalance, they are inferior to men and should be treated as such.
Ducking for cover now.
Carly had PPMS: Permanemt Pre-menstrual Syndrome.
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