Menstruation Policy

Hi Aimee

Think there's little to be gained by trying to have policies for absolutely everything. Some matters, this included, need to be determined by our overall health safety and welfare statutory duty as well as statutory duty not unlawfully to discriminate against female employees regarding female-only bodily events. Thus, recall when planning moving into new build branch office premises trying to determine what was the most appropriate sanitary equipment to provide in the female toilet areas. In the end. a helpful female member of staff there had a word with all her colleagues and advised me what exactly they'd all prefer. Any 'menstrual policy' would have been likely to uselessly re-state the obvious - that we were committed to providing at-least adequate facilities - so IMHO so specific a policy is in most if not every instance very unnecessary indeed

Hi Aimee

Think there's little to be gained by trying to have policies for absolutely everything. Some matters, this included, need to be determined by our overall health safety and welfare statutory duty as well as statutory duty not unlawfully to discriminate against female employees regarding female-only bodily events. Thus, recall when planning moving into new build branch office premises trying to determine what was the most appropriate sanitary equipment to provide in the female toilet areas. In the end. a helpful female member of staff there had a word with all her colleagues and advised me what exactly they'd all prefer. Any 'menstrual policy' would have been likely to uselessly re-state the obvious - that we were committed to providing at-least adequate facilities - so IMHO so specific a policy is in most if not every instance very unnecessary indeed