076 - Menopause and Employment Law - Victoria Duddles & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Louise Newson is delighted to welcome Victoria Duddles, solicitor and Principal Associate at Weightmans LLP. Dr Newson and Victoria Duddles first met when they were both guest speakers at a Birmingham CIPD event all about menopause in the workplace.
In this podcast, Victoria talks with Dr Newson about the employment law implications for employers when managing and supporting women in the workplace who are going through the menopause and in particular how the Equality Act 2010 may apply.
Victoria Duddles' Three Take Home Tips for employers:
- Put in place menopause policies and training and communicate these with your workforce.
- Make sure the menopause conversation is open for all staff, but especially for those during discussions about performance or absence.
- There are lots of resources available for employers, from bodies such as CIPD and ACAS. As a manger or even supervisor, you can look at these and educate yourself on how to best support the women in your workplace.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health |
| 0:22.5 | Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.2 | Today for my podcast, I've got with me, Victoria Duddles, who is a solicitor at Wakemans, |
| 0:36.9 | and we actually first met a few years ago now |
| 0:39.7 | at a conference or a meeting that we were both talking at. So I just wanted to explore some issues, |
| 0:46.2 | really, that can affect women who are perimenopausal or menopausal in the workplace. So thank you |
| 0:52.9 | for joining me today, Victoria. |
| 0:54.8 | Hello, Louise, and thank you for inviting me. |
| 0:57.3 | So just explain a bit if you don't mind about what you do and what your job involves, |
| 1:01.6 | just to set the scene, really, if that's okay. |
| 1:04.1 | Okay, so my role is I'm an employment lawyer at Waitmans in the Birmingham office. |
| 1:09.9 | And as part of that role, I am in the |
| 1:12.4 | main advising employers on employment law and employee relations issues, although my background is also, |
| 1:20.3 | I am a fellow of the CIPD, so I have those qualifications as well. So it's really advising |
| 1:27.3 | employers in terms of complying with the law |
| 1:30.3 | and trying to avoid them getting into trouble. Very good. And so with the menopause in the workplace, |
| 1:38.6 | we gave a presentation together, didn't we, a few years ago now. That's right. So that was |
| 1:43.0 | at wait a minute for CIPD, wasn't it? |
| 1:45.5 | So tell me a miss about that, if you don't mind. Yeah. So we did a joint presentation where I covered |
| 1:53.0 | the employment law aspects of how having an employee who is going through the menopause may |
| 1:59.0 | impact in the workplace, what their employment |
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