Global assessment of employment regulation supporting reproductive health
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32978/sjp.2025.012Keywords:
menstruation, Japan, Spain, labor lawAbstract
The legal regulation of work basically ignores the special aspects of women’s existence, such as menstruation and menopause. The study deals with labor law issues of menstruation, among them it mainly presents international examples of menstrual leave, analyzes them by highlighting the underlying motivations, differences in legal provisions, and feedback found in foreign literature. Examining these contributes to the goal that the Hungarian legislator can consider, if he were to follow the Spanish model, how he could promote the well-being of women at work by possibly introducing menstrual leave, learning from foreign examples.
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