Manager Implements Unique Policy to Help Employees with Menstrual Pain

“I could no longer see my employees in pain. Today, they no longer force themselves to come to work in pain,” says Timothée Saillard, manager of two Biocoop stores in Villeurbanne.

The young director has set up a system allowing his employees to take six days off with pay during the year in the event of painful periods. A first in the Rhône. “You have to be a forerunner in life. I try to make things happen on my small scale, ”explains the 35-year-old leader.

This native Breton was confronted in his personal entourage with the question of menstrual pain. He decided to skip the…