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CHANGE is needed so menopausal women no longer have to face “stigma, shame and discrimination” at work, GMB members demanded today.
Delegates at the general union’s annual congress unanimously backed a motion which instructed GMB to continue rolling out awareness training of the natural condition’s often debilitating symptoms.
The union must also campaign, “as far as is practicable, to legislate for menopausal leave to be a protected characteristic” under the Equality Act 2010, it added.
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