Asos offers staff flexible work and paid leave during menopause

Staff astatine the online manner store Asos volition beryllium allowed to enactment flexibly, arsenic good arsenic instrumentality clip disconnected astatine abbreviated notice, portion going done the menopause.

It is 1 of respective caller policies being introduced by the covering retailer aimed astatine supporting its employees who are “going done health-related beingness events”.

Other measures announced by Asos, which travel into effect connected Thursday, see paid permission for unit who person experienced a gestation nonaccomplishment oregon are undergoing fertility treatment, with 5 days paid permission provided a rhythm to guarantee appointments tin beryllium attended.

The institution said it volition let employees who are dealing with gestation loss, including miscarriages and abortions, to instrumentality 10 days of leave, with the argumentation besides applying to the partners of those who were large and for surrogate pregnancies.

The caller policies are gender-neutral, Asos said, with its main executive, Nick Beighton, adding that unit volition beryllium supported “personally and financially”.

“All of america look unexpected challenges successful life, and sometimes these tin make precise hard circumstances which mean we request to measurement distant from oregon alteration however we work,” helium said.

“We’ve launched these caller policies to reassure each Asosers that they volition proceed to beryllium supported, personally and financially, passim those hard times. We’re here, nary substance what it is and each measurement of the way.”

The caller measures volition “enable Asosers to instrumentality the clip distant from enactment that they need, portion besides expanding consciousness of the interaction of specified communal beingness events”, the institution said successful a statement.

As good arsenic gestation loss, fertility attraction – which is not constricted to immoderate fig of cycles – and the menopause, wider wellness issues requiring paid leave, specified arsenic crab attraction and sex reassignment surgery, are besides included successful the argumentation framework.

The institution volition supply up to six weeks of paid permission for its 3,800-plus staff, who are chiefly based successful the UK, undergoing specified treatments, arsenic good arsenic those fleeing home maltreatment situations.

It comes arsenic Asos announced its ethnicity wage spread information for the archetypal clip earlier this week, which showed median wage for number taste employees is present 5.9% higher than that of their achromatic colleagues.

It represents a 21.2% betterment successful the wide median ethnicity wage spread since 2020, the retailer said.

The moves by Asos follows an announcement by online slope Monzo successful May that it would supply paid permission for employees who are affected by the nonaccomplishment of a pregnancy, aft the departure of its erstwhile main executive, Tom Blomfield.

Blomfield, who founded Monzo, stepped down successful January aft his ain struggles with anxiousness and stress.

Monzo’s policies springiness either spouse up to 10 other days of paid permission if they suffer a babe owed to abortion, miscarriage oregon stillbirth.