Spanish lawgivers moment gave final blessing to a law granting paid medical leave to women suffering severe period pain, getting the first European country to advance similar legislation.
The law, which passed by 185 votes in favour to 154 against, is aimed at breaking a taboo on the subject, the government has said.
Menstrual leave is presently offered only in a small number of countries across the globe, among them Japan, Indonesia and Zambia.
” It’s a major day for feminist progress,” Equality Minister Irene Montero twittered ahead of the vote.
The legislation entitles workers passing period pain to as important time off as they need, with the state social security system– not employers– picking up the tab for the sick leave.
As with paid leave for other health reasons, a croaker must authorize the temporary
medical incapability.
The length of sick leave that croakers will be suitable to grant to women suffering from painful ages has not been specified in the law.
About a third of women who menstruate suffer from severe pain, according to the Spanish Gynaecology and Obstetrics Society.
The measure has created divisions among both politicians and unions, with the UGT, one of Spain’s largest trade unions, advising it could stigmatise women in the plant and favour the reclamation of men.
The main opposition conservative Popular Party( PP) also advised the law risks” stigmatising” women and could have” negative consequences in the labour request” for them.
” Menstrual leave” is one of the crucial measures in the broader legislation, which also provides for increased access to revocation in public hospitals.
lower than 15 percent of revocations performed in the country take place in similar institutions, substantially because of conscientious expostulations by croakers.
The new law also allows minors to have revocations without maternal authorization at 16 and 17 times of age, reversing a demand introduced by a former conservative government in 2015.
Spain, a European leader in women’s rights, decriminalized revocation in 1985, and in 2010, it passed a law that allows women to conclude freely for revocation during the first 14 weeks of gestation in utmost cases.
