On The Job with Francis Leach and Sally Rugg

Pain, periods, perimenopause: why workplaces need reproductive leave (part one)

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On The Job is back and with new hosts: Kleo Cruse and Emma Hartley. This episode is for all workers with a reproductive system – yes, that’s you!

The social stigma attached to menstruation and menopause often means workers are enduring the pain of normal bodily functions in silence.

We chat to Ann-Marie Allan from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Kate Marshall from the Health And Community Services Union about how reproductive leave can help ease some of that pain.

Keen to have reproductive leave at your workplace? Get things kickstarted by joining your union.

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