The city of Zurich will carry out a pilot project
Employees in the city of Zurich are given leave if they have severe menstrual pain. The municipal council only narrowly agreed to a pilot project.
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the essentials in brief
- The city of Zurich will start a pilot project on menstrual leave.
- Employees with severe pain can be dispensed for up to five days per month.
- In the municipal council, a corresponding initiative was accepted by 66 to 52 votes.
A postulate has a Zurich municipal council transferred. City employees are to provide a vacation for menstrual periods with severe and persistent pain. Ready for a pilot project implementation showed up also City Councilor Daniel Leupi (Greens).
In the future, employees in the city of Zurich who suffer from severe menstrual problems will be dispensed for one to five days a month. Dies on full payment.
This demand is made by two municipal councilors greens in Wednesday’s session. According to estimates 25 to 35 percent of women are affected.
Postulant Anna-Béatrice Schmaltz (Greens) spoke of a feminist demand that has existed for many years. A pilot project should provide insights into whether this is an issue. It’s not about all women, so it’s not about portraying women in general as weak.
Susanne Brunner (SVP) Warth Cave greens to demand a «protected workshop». Women would be pushed into a victim role. Yasmine Bourgeois (FDP) called the advance unnecessary. who is in severe pain can take sick leave.
A private sector, there are already some vacations during menstruation
Men also commented on the subject, although Patrick Hässig (GLP) was not quite sure whether he was allowed to do so. But he asked his work colleagues about the subject, said the nurse.
These have responded competently. Josef Widler (centre) found the initiative “not shamar feminist”. Employees are better protected today, they do not have to say what illness they are absent from.
Do you support menstrual leave?
Schmaltz replied that it was all about regular absences. “That’s striking,” she said. City Councilor Daniel Leupi (Greens) explained that he had already considered running a pilot project in advance. However, older employees would have reacted negatively, younger ones positively.
With the introduction of menstrual leave, Zurich would not be an exotic place, Leupi stated. There are also employers in the private sector who grant this. He is willing to start a pilot if he finds departments that would participate.
The municipal council passed the postulancy by a vote of 66 to 52.
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