2023-09-22 07:24:43
The sub-prefecture of Abbeville, in the Somme, considered that the measure is not legal, because no law has yet been adopted on the subject. The city’s elected officials have contacted Élisabeth Borne, and are hoping for progress.
Municipal employees of Abbeville, in the Somme, will not be able to benefit from menstrual leave. From January 1, 2024, the city wanted to launch an experiment to allow its agents, upon presentation of a medical certificate, to use this system, implemented in certain companies.
But the measure was rejected by the sub-prefecture, which deemed it illegal, no law having been passed to this effect. Municipal employees will, however, be able to adjust their schedules, or work from home, particularly those who suffer from endometriosis.
“I often have very inflamed kidneys, it hurts, it burns. I get electric shocks,” Anne-Lise Benzo Di Verdura, an employee at the Abbeville archives and heritage libraries, who suffers from this disease, explains to BFMTV. “Being able to set up a workstation (…) is important,” she assures.
A letter addressed to Élisabeth Borne
Concerning menstrual leave, the elected officials of Abbeville denounce the rejection of the experiment and sent a letter to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. “It’s a taboo subject. We have to make things happen. If we are pioneers, we hope to move forward, that the Prime Minister takes our wishes into account. We are waiting for there to be a law”, explains Michelle Delage, elected representative of Abbeville in charge of gender equality.
For the moment, three bills on menstrual leave have been tabled in Parliament: one supported by environmentalist deputies, two others by socialist senators and deputies.
A device that divides
The introduction of menstrual leave is far from unanimous in France. At the end of April, Élisabeth Borne welcomed the initiatives taken in certain companies in favor of menstrual leave and assured that the government was “looking at the system” to “facilitate this commitment”.
“We will be able to make a decision” when the legislative proposals have been tabled “and we have visibility on their content,” also explained Isabelle Rome, Minister for Equality between Women and Men.
More recently, in June, a senatorial report estimated that this device “is not justified if a disabling pathology is not associated with it”. “In any case, for this type of pathologies, the response lies, according to the senators who authored the report, with real therapeutic care rather than the establishment of leave.”
In Europe, Spain is the only country to have definitively adopted a law establishing menstrual leave for women suffering from painful periods.
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