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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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