“Instead of minding myself and grieving with my husband over our lost child, I was stressing about using up all of my sick leave,” she said.“At the time we were living an hour away from school and I cried the whole hour-long journey from Edenderry. I wasn’t ready to go back to school. I was broken.”
“I was devastated and barely functioning but guess what I did on September 1st? Yes, I went to school. Why did I do that? Because I was worried about using up even more sick leave. The worry and stress over sick leave was like a noose around my neck at the time,” she said. “Fertility treatment, scans for possible difficulties, difficulties with IVF should all be covered,”she said.
I know the public hate teachers, but how can people take issue with this?!
Why the need to 'save' sick leave? Absolutely support a woman being certified for sick leave following a miscarriage, but why is more leave needed? Public sector workers already have very good provision for certified sick leave.
Hugely important for all women.
It should be available to all women
What nonsense. When Sr Aquanas had her miscarriages she wasn't given a day off from septic tank duty
Also bronagh rightly or wrongly is it not technically the people who voted for it rather then the government who dont care?
Harsh bronagh
How many more days do they want off? Do private sector employees get time off for this?
But we live in a new Ireland, where the products of conception are not human, have no rights & can be killed with impunity. Why would the govt care about your miscarriage? Acc to them, it wasn't a human anyway... ProLife unbornbabiesarehuman
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