Onthly Periods Are A Huge Part of The Life of A Woman

Menstrual Leave Practicability Speech
As women, we've all had those days when we're so overcome with cramps that we want to call in sick and
stay curled up in bed all day rather than get dressed up and attempt to sit upright in a chair for eight
hours.
The Constitution, Article XIII, Section 14 provides that “the State shall protect working
women by providing safe and healthful conditions, taking into account their maternal
functions, and such facilities and opportunities that will enhance their welfare and enable
them to realize their full potential in the service of the nation.”
Your honors, it is my pleasure to defend why the menstrual leave for women is practical. Let
me get directly to the point.
First, to make menstrual leave a legal right of all working women in our country
addresses economic issues gearing towards an increase in efficiency and
productivity at the workplace in both private and government.
Monthly periods are a huge part of the life of a woman that sometimes, brings unbearable
pain or cramps that causes us to be unproductive at work, or worse we do not report for
work and choose to stay at home for a day or two. Why force employees to work when
physical discomfort prevents them from performing well? It’s not just about taking time off
if you feel unwell but about empowering people to be their optimum selves. And that’s got
to be good for business.
Unlike other countries, there is no law in the Philippines that allows female employees not to
report for work due to premenstrual or menstrual tension.
COUNTRIES WITH MENSTRUAL LEAVE FOR FEMALE WORKERS
1. JAPAN - The country has had menstrual leave since just after World War II. According to
the 1947 Labor Standards Law, any women suffering from painful periods or whose job
might exacerbate period pain are allowed seirikyuuka (literally “physiological leave”).
2. TAIWAN - The 2013 amendment to the country’s Act of Gender Equality in Employment
guarantees female workers three days of menstrual leave a year, in addition to the 30 days
of half-paid sick leave allotted to all workers.
3. INDONESIA - Women in the workforce are entitled to have two days menstrual leave a
month, though many companies simply ignore the law.
4. SOUTH KOREA - South Korean workers were granted menstrual leave in 2001, though an
experiment in extending the policy to female university students was deemed a failure
(“faculty members decided that the policy was being abused as an excuse for absence”).
Unlike men, female experience or some may suffer due to their physiological constitution
every month that constricts them, provide them discomforts and even pain every month
such that this women workers and members of our workforce deserve at least additional
leave pay to provide them with a leave for wellness and recovery due this monthly
physiological conditions that their bodies give them.
Secondly, if menstrual leave a legal right of all working women and they will get
paid for the day's leave every month, they do not need to get medical certificate or
worry about their salary being deducted for dropping a day’s work.
The standard query was "Why do you want to go home? Do you have fever?" Women asked
doctors over and over again why they had such severe pain. Employees do not need to get
doctors' notes, or worry about their salary being deducted for dropping a day's work. In my
case, as long as there is no business trip scheduled or important work to be finished, I
normally take half a day or a day off. I just stay at home, sleeping after taking painkillers or
doing some work in bed.
It has been shown that women who suffer severe pain during their period are much less
productive in these days. Recognizing their right to be absent from work during that time
means they will be much more productive when they return. It would be aggravating if a
working woman needs to beat deadlines while suffering from painful cramping, headache,
backache and fatigue, among others.
Third, if menstrual leave a legal right of all working women, it would make
women feel they can discuss a topic that has long been considered taboo.
According to Chella Quint, founder of #periodpositive, a campaign for better menstruation

education and shame-free menstruation talk, regular sick leave policies aren't enough to
accommodate women for their periods because "menstruation isn't an illness. To medicalize
it in every case seems to me to uphold a lot of old stereotypes that people have in trying to
break down for a really long time," she explains.
Taboo and stigma are the main issues around menstruation and not being able to talk about
it with other people can make you feel isolated and you might not even be able to share
why you want sick leave if your employer happens to ask,"
With the foregoing, your honors, we in the affirmative side, hold and defend that the
reduction of the mandatory retirement age for government employees from - to is practical.
Thank you.
I am now ready for the interpellation.

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Menstrual Leave Practicability Speech

COUNTRIES WITH MENSTRUAL LEAVE FOR FEMALE WORKERS

According to Chella Quint, founder of #periodpositive, a campaign for better menstruation

I am now ready for the interpellation.

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