Paid Menstrual Leave Comes to Switzerland

Around one in ten women of childbearing age suffer from endometriosis, a chronic disease that causes severe pelvic pain, especially during menstruation.

The western Swiss city of Fribourg, located between Bern and Lausanne and on a rocky promontory, recently passed a new rule that allows municipal employees with period pain to take up to three days of paid leave during each menstrual cycle without a medical diagnosis. The city council voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution with 49 votes in favor, 13 against and 13 abstentions.

"It is essential to be able to say openly that I am on my period and therefore I am ill, and to accept this as a legitimate and valid reason to be absent from work," Green Party MP Laura Zahnd told French newspaper Le Matin. "You know, at the moment, people who are on their period have to go to work even if they are uncomfortable."

Some people suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding, which can lead to physical weakness, Nicola Pluchino, a gynecologist at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), told French newspaper Le Temps last year. "For these women, going to work consistently becomes too much to handle," he said. "And they find it extremely difficult to get their colleagues or supervisors to listen to them and understand their feelings." Globally, about one in ten women of childbearing age suffer from endometriosisExternal link, a chronic disease that causes severe pelvic pain, especially during menstruation.

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