Green MPs on Friday proposed menstrual leave for painful or incapacitating menstruation, two weeks after a socialist proposal along the same lines was tabled, with each group hoping to ignite the spark of a cross-partisan movement to breaking a “taboo”. After the adoption of a law in Spain, the subject emerges in France. And the left is positioning itself. In front of the press at the Assembly, the elected environmentalists presented a “serious and applicable” proposal to “break the taboo on menstruation”.
Co-author of this proposal with her colleagues Marie-Charlotte Garin and Sébastien Peytavie, Sandrine Rousseau has “good hope” that it will be adopted “in a transpartisan way”, even if it is not on the agenda at this time. stadium.
A work stoppage of 13 days spread over a year
Their text provides for the possibility of a work stoppage in the event of “incapacitating menstruation” (pain, nausea, headache, etc.), recognized by a doctor or a midwife. Over a period of one year, the persons concerned could deposit thirteen days according to their needs. The work stoppage would be fully covered by health insurance and exempt from waiting days. It could be renewed once a year, bringing the maximum duration to 26 days “for the most serious cases”.
On the PS side, MPs Mickaël Bouloux and Fatiha Keloua Hachi tabled their own text in early May, and senators did the same in April. “We are ready to lift the taboo of the rules”, insists Mickaël Bouloux. The PS deputies also propose a work stoppage of 13 days spread over a year, and without deficiency. However, the leave would be limited to two days per month. Allies of environmentalists in the Assembly, the Socialists called on Friday in a press release for “a convergence of all initiatives”, and for the creation of a “transpartisan working group”. “There are public health issues for which we must go beyond the parties,” pleaded Fatiha Keloua Hachi.
At this stage everyone defends his version, and hopes to convince even in the presidential camp. Environmentalists have called for a meeting with the government. If the two left-wing groups could include their texts in their reserved days during the next ordinary session (at the end of 2023 or in 2024), they invite the presidential camp to support their actions. This would make it possible to examine a bill during a “transpartisan” week, with several days of debate if necessary.