The Kitchener, Ont., maker of the DivaCup menstrual device has adopted a paid period leave policy offering menstruating workers a day off a month.
"Any person who menstruates can take up to 12 paid days off per year," Diva founder and CEO Carinne Chambers-Saini said in an interview. "There's no doctor's note required. If you are suffering and you need that day, we take your word for it."
Chambers-Saini said her team researched paid menstrual leave before implementing the policy and wasn't able to find another company in Canada offering the benefit.
Paid and unpaid menstrual leave have been implemented in Zambia and several Asian countries, including Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
The company -- which manufactures the reusable silicone DivaCup in southern Ontario -- has a workforce of about 50, roughly three-quarters of whom are female. The paid period leave comes on top of eight paid sick and personal days, one paid volunteer day and annual leave.
So just to review, "menstruators" are afforded 20+ paid sick days a year by this company with no questions asked while "swinging dicks" only get 8 paid sick days for any other health needs unrelated to Aunt Flo.
It's also interesting that 75% of their personnel is female. If their employees' periods sync, do they just shut down the office for a few days every month when their 50-man operation suddenly only has less a dozen men show up for work some days?
At least there's some solace that the dumb customers supporting such stupid policies in the end will be the ones paying more for their product since this woke inefficient company has 75% of their workforce who can choose not to come to work on any given day.
I knew I had come across something similar recently
So just to review, "menstruators" are afforded 20+ paid sick days a year by this company with no questions asked while "swinging dicks" only get 8 paid sick days for any other health needs unrelated to Aunt Flo.
It's also interesting that 75% of their personnel is female. If their employees' periods sync, do they just shut down the office for a few days every month when their 50-man operation suddenly only has less a dozen men show up for work some days?
At least there's some solace that the dumb customers supporting such stupid policies in the end will be the ones paying more for their product since this woke inefficient company has 75% of their workforce who can choose not to come to work on any given day.
Whatever, I'll bleed if I get paid time off.
I'm surprised the DivaCup is made in Canada by Canadians, as it's a relatively successful product.
Of course, looking at their woke management, that doesn't seem likely to continue (without government virtue signaling corporate welfare)