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Re:A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off durin... by BearGoesChirp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:07AM (#14743816)
But there are number of health conditions that either gender can get that are rare and lead to many days of significant pain. Some even can result in bleeding similar to periods. Do we given these issues their own days off for those unlucky enough to have them? Or is it only counted in sick leave?
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Re:A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off durin... by bigmanwalter on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:10AM (#14743837)
I feel that the workplace should attempt to accommodate any and all medical conditions.
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Re:A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off durin... by BearGoesChirp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:16AM (#14743876)
Which tends to be accounted for in either general leave or more specialized sick leave. The idea of giving people more beyond this because of biological processes they cannot control raises the question of how we decide which biological processes deserve extra leave.
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