While Spanish deputies adopted a law in mid-February creating “menstrual leave” for women suffering from painful menstruation, the proposal is slowly making its way in France… and in the capital. The environmental group at the Council of Paris will indeed submit a wish to this effect, on the proposal of the municipal councilor Alice Coffin, so that the city experiments “the establishment of a menstrual leave for the agents.es of the City of Paris not being able to carry out their work”.
“I also say this as a woman who has extremely painful periods, like more than one in two women according to studies, and when we say painful periods, it really means to bend over backwards, not to be able to walk. , screaming in pain, explains Alice Coffin in a video, which touts countries that have such a leave in place. In addition to Spain, there are Japan and Indonesia. “I hope that this wish will be voted on so that the agents who have these painful rules can benefit from a leave in this case”, adds the adviser.
Legislative impossibility
Contacted by 20 Minutes, the City’s assistant for human resources, Antoine Guillou, explains that “the current legislative framework does not allow communities to define leave themselves”. But the deputy intends to use the Paris Council as a space for expression to ask the government to change things.
A position in line with the text of the Parisian ecologists who asks that the city challenges the government on the establishment of such leave “for all employees in the private sector and all public service agents. territorial, state and hospital”.