The Department for Work and Pensions is developing policy to address menopause and reproductive health in the workplace, including statutory protections for women experiencing menopause symptoms and pregnancy loss. The issue encompasses employer obligations to provide workplace support, paid bereavement leave for miscarriage and pre-24-week pregnancy loss, and amendments to the Employment Rights Bill to clarify that supporting reproductive health conditions constitutes advancing gender equality. Current provision is inconsistent across employers and inadequate statutory protections exist.
This 12-month report provides an update on the No Time to Step Back report.
In response to: No Time to Step Back: the government’s Menopause Employment Champion
Guidance to help recruit, support and retain women experiencing menopause and stop women considering giving up their employment.
UK government response to the independent report: 'Menopause and the Workplace: How to enable fulfilling working lives'.
Second Reading 09:35:00 Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) (Lab): I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The private Members’ Bills ballot at the start of each Session of Parliament gives each of us the opportunity …