Giving Australians 12 days leave each year for menstrual pain, menopause and IVF could save a fortune, study finds, but only a handful of workplaces offer it
Giving all Australian workers 12 days of leave for reproductive health matters like menstrual pain, menopause, IVF and vasectomies would be vastly cheaper for everyone than maintaining the status quo, new research has found.
In analysis commissioned by the Health Services Union, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre found it would cost an estimated $920m annually to make 12 days of reproductive leave a universal employee entitlement, but it costs approximately $26.55bn every year without it – making the cost of not giving workers reproductive leave entitlements nearly 30 times more expensive.
