The City and the Metropolis of Strasbourg announced on Monday that it had appealed the decision of the administrative court preventing them from establishing gynecological leave for their employees.
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“This Friday, August 22, the city and the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg jointly called on the judgment pronounced by the Strasbourg administrative court on the experimental gynecological health leave system established since September 2024 for the benefit of community agents,” the two communities said in a press release.
The Strasbourg administrative court, seized by the prefecture of Bas-Rhin, canceled this measure at the end of June, established on an experimental basis, believing that it could not be instituted by a community, for lack of legal framework.
“This decision was both a great disappointment for all the agents who were able to benefit from this work planning when they needed it most and once again sent a negative signal for gender equality to work,” say the Alsatian communities, led by an ecological majority.
The measure allowed agents suffering from menstrual pain, endometriosis or symptoms of menopause to have 13 annual days of exceptional absence, upon presentation of a medical certificate.
Applied on an experimental basis in several communities in France, mainly directed by the left, the measure is often attacked in court by the prefectures, which dispute its legality.
Among the communities having set it up, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the Metropolis of Lyon, the city of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) or several municipalities in the Grenoble metropolis.
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