Election results 2024: What changes can employers expect?

Menopause action plans

The previous Government considered ways to help employers support and manage staff experiencing the menopause.

It decided against making menopause an additional protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, and instead established a Menopause Taskforce to share best practice and appointed a Menopause Employment Champion to work with employers to keep people experiencing menopause symptoms in work. It also asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to publish guidance for employers, published in February this year. 

Labour says it will require employers with 250 or more employees to produce menopause action plans, explaining the steps they will take to support employees through the menopause. It will also publish guidance, including for small employers, on measures to consider relating to uniform and temperature, flexible working and recording menopause-related leave and absence.