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.
>>>I think that they have made an EXCELLENT case for not hiring women at all!>>>
got my vote!
As one of the privileges of being female you don't have to be the target of one that does.
My wife would agree!
Sounds good! I could you time off for that!
I now understand.
Actually this is not a new thing. If you investigate older building plans you'll find often there are "cot rooms" in women's restrooms ... a place for women who aren't feeling well to lie down.
You'll see this in old plans of school buildings (for teachers) and in buildings were a lot of women worked, for example in restrooms in offices with typing pools.
There is a bank in my city that still maintains "cot rooms" in their female worker restrooms. Once they tried to take over those rooms for another use (on a project I was working on) and there was a minor revolt ... so they left them.
Hello bootylicious
What does having to live in a nh do with getting a senior discount??? Why should they get special rights?
What about Terri Schiavo who is in her 40's that is comatose...should she get a senior discount??? She meets your criteria.
I just think it is unfair that seniors get a discount when I have to pay the full price.
I would like to revise and extend my remarks. Women don't suffer from PMS, men do. Conversely, men don't suffer from premature ejaculation (Hey, does that look like suffering to you?)
Funny! I didn't get that far before the thread was pulled. That's absolutely hilarious.
But a good reason to hire post menopausal women!
Fully intended .........love Beaver Fever. Haven't heard that phrase since my college days in the Northwest.
It's nice to see how mature everyone is being about this subject (/sarcasm).
No, it seemed they all waited til at work to take the daily dump! The stench could sear, yes sear, your nose hairs!
p.s. I never could understand the fuss over the toilet seat. As for the rest- husband doesn't wear underwear, uses electric razor 90% of the time, he and son thankfully have good aim, and the whole family uses up towels so no complaints there lol.
This raises a red flag with me.
Yup.
uh, who is going to verify the truth in the sick day? Geesh... are the sups going to have to track their cycles? What if they are not regular... what iff........ enough already hahahhaa
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