Workplace Menopause Laws Demand New HR Playbooks

When two out of five people experiencing menopause symptoms have considered leaving a job—or actually left one—because of those symptoms, it seems incumbent upon employers and their human resources teams to undertake something harder than a policy update: the creation of a workplace culture where employees actually feel safe asking for the support that the law now contemplates.

Writing for Law360, Elliot I. Griffin wrote about a surge of state and local laws that specifically name menopause and perimenopause as protected conditions in the workplace, how those square with federal protections, and what employers and human resources professionals should contemplate now.

Elliot is a member of Ballard Spahr's Labor & Employment Group.

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