The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) recently received a mandate from its membership to raise awareness of menopause and improve accommodations for menopause and women’s health in federal public sector workplaces. You can learn more about this work and our mandate by consulting our issues page. We are seeking members who have experience of menstruation or menopause or who face reproductive health challenges that impact their work to join our Menopause and Women’s Health Working Group. Joining the working group will offer you the possibility to share your insights and work with fellow members to improve menopause awareness and accommodation in your workplaces.
Is this an opportunity for you?
Are you concerned about menopause? Are you interested to see more recognition of perimenopause and menopause in your workplace? If the answer to these questions is yes, we want to hear from you!
Our goals
The working group will work to educate members, put forward demands for changes to workplaces and improve language in collective agreements. A successful campaign will see us working with the federal government to make its workplaces menopause-friendly and to ensure that women’s health issues including menopause do not have negative effects on women’s job satisfaction, success and career progression in the federal public service.
Interested? Let us know!
Click here to express interest in this opportunity!
Members who participate will be eligible for union leave and can indicate other accommodation needs in the form linked above.
Other ways to get involved
If a working group is not the right fit for you, watch your inbox this year for further opportunities to participate, including a survey, focus groups and member education events!
For further context, you can read the text of the member’s resolution here.
If you would like more information on the working group, please send an email to general@acep-cape.ca with “Women’s Health Working Group” in the subject line.
