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.
Nope
"If men got periods they would demand the days off".
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You may be right. French men are indistinguishable from women and they demanded a 35 hour work week.
Fair 'nuf,
I hear ya.
All I was trying to say is I have a soft spot for old folks :)
LMAO! Married men would be gone all year long!
Woman in bar: "I can't have sex with you - I'm on my menstrual cycle."
Man in bar: "That's ok honey - I rode my Moped."
"I think that they have made an EXCELLENT case for not hiring women at all!"
There's still a place for females in the workplace (secretaries, salesgirls, receptionists, etc.) where we can survive their PMS because they aren't in charge. It's the bosses we need to worry about. Most of these gals are already man-eaters and the extra monthly hormone boost can make them truly unbearable. Send 'em home one day a month for the sake of the menfolk or don't promote them at all.
(So the situation is fluid at the moment)
ROTFL!
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