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.
God help the men if they turn down menstrual leave!
This is a bloody subject. We could beat this to death. :)
Paleeeeeeeeeeeeze suck it up you bunch of babies.
this is the 2nd thread today regarding pms.
Is it that time of the month here ?
Good idea beins as how they are unclean then.
Keep 'em outta the wheat...keep them outta the 4-Runners.
What a crock.
I demand absolute equality in the workplace! If women get "Menstrual Leave", then men should get it too.
I predicted this when those smokers got fired recently.
Men should require blue ball leave if this is accepted.
This is discriminatory to post-menopausal women.
Women today are becoming damn whining babies.
Unbelievable!
Even if the autoworkers don't get the day off, I still want legislation passed for husbands to get the Kitchen Pass each month.
>>>"A lot of women have terribly bad periods and they are genuinely ill and we simply say that has to be recognised."<<
ever hear of midol, tylenol, advil, etc. etc. etc. this is just another excuse for women to take a day off
Just more union crap. The selfish extortion of unions continues to show itself...
Oh...good...grief.
To be fair, men should get paid hardship leave....;-)
>>Even if the autoworkers don't get the day off, I still want legislation passed for husbands to get the Kitchen Pass each month.<<
Kitchen pass - 100 percent unanamously passed!
This undercuts the whole equal pay argument.
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