2023-04-19 17:36:41
Employees will thus be entitled to one day of absence per month. cristianstorto / stock.adobe.com
For the group’s CEO, Alexandre Bompard, the objective is to “advance women’s rights and equality at work”.
One in ten women suffers from endometriosis in France, ie 2 to 4 million people, according to the Foundation for research into this disease which causes severe pain, especially during menstruation. The retail group Carrefour announced on Wednesday that its employees with endometriosis will thus be entitled to 12 days of absence per year, on presentation of a document attesting to their disability.
«To advance women’s rights and equality at work, we have decided (…) to grant 12 days off to women with endometriosis, one day per month“, declared during a press conference the CEO of the group, Alexandre Bompard, considering that Carrefour is “the first major company to do so“. This measure will particularly benefit the50,000 women who work every day in Carrefour stores in France“, detailed the CEO, who thus hopes “change the daily lives of our colleagues so that these women can flourish in the workplace without fear of being ostracized by their health».
«We have to get people to understand that endometriosis is not a taboocontinues Carine Kraus, Executive Director of Group Engagement. An awareness guide will be shared with managers in order to “that they can know the right behaviors to adopt in the face of this disease“. For women with pain but without endometriosis, “the managers will show discernment and will propose adaptations to the employees concerned“, insists Carine Kraus, who wants the device to be followed by other companies.
The retail group also announced two other measures related to the health of women at work: “three days of authorized medical absence following a miscarriage” – a measure currently being debated in Parliament -, as well as a day off for women having recourse to PMA, “at the time of embryo transfer“. These systems currently only concern Carrefour employees in France, but Alexandre Bompard intends to “adapt the announcements we make today to all countries“, while “200,000 women are currently workingfor the group. Announcements should soon be made concerning Italy and Spain, he said.
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Progress thanks to the Spanish model
Several French companies are already experimenting with similar initiatives, in particular with a “menstrual leavewhich isn’t just for women with endometriosis. This is the case, for example, of the cooperative society La Collective, which is the first to have introduced it in 2021. Employees thus have the possibility of taking one or more days of paid leave during their periods, which are not not counted as a work stoppage. On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, March 8, 2022, the furniture company Louis Design also introduced this measure, followed a few months later by the specialist in customer interaction management, Critizr and the town hall of Saint-Ouen.
In France, if the measures of the companies multiply, the “menstrual leaveis not yet enshrined in law. However, a proposal should be tabled in the coming weeks. “We must not stop at individual initiatives, this system must be generalized for all women who need it.“, indicated on April 10 the ecologist deputy Sébastien Peytavie. With Sandrine Rousseau and Marie-Charlotte Garin, the parliamentarians have also launched a consultation on the question, before the tabling of their text on May 26. Another initiative was also launched on the side of the Socialists, by the deputies Mickaël Bouloux and Fatiha Keloua Hachi.
If the subject is gaining momentum, it is particularly in relation to the establishment of the “menstrual leavein Spanish law on February 16. “It is a question of granting to this pathological situation an adapted regulation in order to eliminate any negative bias” for women “In the working world“, is it written in the text. The latter thus allows Spanish women who have painful periods to take a few days off, provided they have prior authorization from a doctor. In Europe, Spain is the first country to incorporate this measure into its legislation. Worldwide, the device already existed in Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Zambia and Japan. THE “menstrual leaveappeared in Japanese law as early as 1947, but employees are generally not paid when they take days off.
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