Italy Could Soon Offer Women Paid ‘Menstrual Leave’

Italy could be the first western country to offer paid PMS pay to female workers. It is being debated now and it would mandate that women receive 3 days off a month for painful periods. Health experts praise this as a step in the right direction and will relieve women suffering with PMS's plight.

Italy could soon become the first Western country to offer paid “menstrual leave” to female workers.

The proposed law is currently being debated in the country’s parliament. If passed, it would mandate that companies enforce a “menstrual leave” policy and offer three paid days off each month to working women who experience painful periods.

Health experts and local media outlets have praised the proposal, saying it was a step in the right direction and would shed light on the silent plight of women suffering from debilitating cramps that can sometimes affect their ability to work.

This could keep women from being hired by making it more expensive them, Italy already has one of the lowest women worker participation. Also, one in 4 women get fired just before or after getting preggy.

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Writing in Donna Moderna, another women’s magazine, Lorenza Pleuteri argued that if women were granted extra paid leave, employers would be even more reluctant to hire women, in a country where women already struggle to integrate the workforce.

In fact, due to enduring cultural stereotypes, Italy has one of the lowest rates of female labor participation in the workforce , with a staggering one in four women getting fired just before or after getting pregnant, according to the Italian National Institute for Statistics.

a reply to: seasonal

Well that's bloody crazy!

Now that sounds good, send the woman home when they are on the rag, they are crabby around that time of the month most times, so might as well just get them out so they don't upset everyone else.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: seasonal

Well that's bloody crazy!

too soon

a reply to: seasonal

a reply to: IAMTAT

Pun intended?

Well, I can say that women deserve them.


Periods that is, not the days off.

originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: IAMTAT

Pun intended?

Obviously an overt attempt to pad their salaries.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

I think men should get paid leave when the women are having their menses.

a reply to: seasonal

What if they need 5 days off?

In Poland, female workers get 1 year maternity leave.

originally posted by: IAMTAT

originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: IAMTAT

Pun intended?

Obviously an overt attempt to pad their salaries.

Enough of the puns, put a sock in it.

a reply to: dfnj2015

Um there's a huge difference between being preggie and having a monthly.

originally posted by: DBCowboy

originally posted by: IAMTAT

originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: IAMTAT

Pun intended?

Obviously an overt attempt to pad their salaries.

Enough of the puns, put a sock in it.

I think you've taken my comment out of kotex.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Somebody needs to tamp this out.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Apologies, your comments should Stay Free.

a reply to: DBCowboy

That joke was very spotty.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

It was ovary the top.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: DBCowboy

That joke was very spotty.

Now you've got me seeing red!

a reply to: seasonal

This will start of as a spot here and there and eventually become a flood.

Anyone else hungry for eggs?