C.on menstrual leave of one day 100 percent paid in case of a painful period. To offer it to the 6 employees of Trainerpink who work as a fitness trainer in his online training company is Carlotta Gagna 30 years old. “I have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – which is called ovulatory disorder, often linked to irregular menstruation, hirsutism and obesity, ed – and I know what it means to have to work with the painful cycle. For me then it was natural to think about this measure for our team ”explains the entrepreneur.
Carlotta Gagna offered menstrual leave to employees
Menstrual leave on parole
Employees are entitled to paid leave without having to show any medical certificatehe explains, to protect them privacy. It is sufficient to notify the administration. The company, says Gagna, has a community of 600,000 women and girls e 20 thousand subscribers a month, who follow the registered online training and fitness programs, to follow when you want and also offers standardized nutrition programs. The target: help you feel comfortable with your own body. The sensitivity to hot issues related to women’s well-being is therefore natural, now that the social debate brought to the fore also at the legislative level invisible pathologies how vulvodynia and endometriosis.
The Spanish proposal
On the other hand, menstrual leave on the home straight in Spain is more complex to obtain. In exchange for three days of paid absence, the provision of medical certificates certifying a pathology that causes painful cycles is requested. If it goes to port, Spain will be the first European country to adopt this standard, which has already been foreseen in Japan since 1947, even if out of fear of the social stigma, very few women use it.
Italy: online petition
In Italy not exactly a menstrual leave but benefits for those suffering from painful menstruation starting from the right to work remotely in the dark days, Alexia Altieri asked them, in a petition by change.org which to date has collected 3800 signatures.
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