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Usdaw's annual conference in Blackpool's Winter Gardens
A “DRAMATIC change” is needed to protect female workers with the menopause and stop them being forced out of the labour market, retail workers urged today.
“Dreadful” Tory ministers, who excluded the condition as a protected characteristic under the 2010 Equality Act, must ensure bosses introduce a menopause policy due to its potentially debilitating symptoms, Usdaw members demanded.
Delegate Karen O’Neill told the retail union’s annual conference in Blackpool that research shows three-quarters of employers lack a medical policy on the condition, which affects most women between the ages of 45 and 55, as there is still no legal requirement to have one.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns