Former DPP warns workplaces to install menopause-friendly policies or risk damaging business
Workplaces must implement menopause-friendly policies to maintain skilled senior female workers or risk damaging business, a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has warned.
Claire Loftus said Irish workplaces needed to “catch up” and protect senior female staff.
Ms Loftus, who was the DPP from 2011 to 2021, said: “Women of menopausal age are typically highly able and experienced, whatever field they work in.
“Employers depend on them to ensure continuity and also to develop newer staff.
“Any scenario where such enormous assets are at risk, as the data shows, of exiting the workforce or curtailing their hours, purely because of menopause symptoms, is potentially damaging to an organisation and to business.”