Teachers call for leave for reproductive health matters

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Delegates at the INTO conference said their union should seek a statutory leave entitlement to cover reproductive health matters

At its annual congress in Galway, teachers in the hugely female-dominated union recounted personal stories of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and fertility treatment.

After her first miscarriage, in June that year, she said she had no option but to take sick leave, even though she said she was not sick, but grieving for her lost baby. When she suffered a second miscarriage in late August of the same year, Ms Doheny said she had no option but to return to school in September, even though she was not ready, because otherwise the entire summer period would have been counted as sick leave.

 

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