Reply #28: It isn't only those in "third world" countries who are denied [View All]

[ikojo]

bathroom breaks. I recall a thread a year or so ago about checkers at grocery stores being denied the right to urinate on company time. Some posters said they knew of baggers and checkers who wore depends in order to make it through an eight hour day.

I also worked for an insurance company that had a contract to pay Medicare claims. They hired consultants to do productivity studies and those consultants told us that going to the bathroom twice a day was more than enough and any more than that cut into claims production.

A book was written a few years ago called, Void Where Prohibited all about OSHA's bathroom break rules...here is a blurb...

http://www.labornotes.org/bookshelf/vwpr.html

Void Where Prohibited Revisited
The Trickle-Down Effect of OSHA’S At-Will Bathroom Regulation

by Marc Linder

n Void Where Prohibited, Marc Linder exposed OSHA’s failure to protect worker’s rights to urinate on company time. Five years after OSHA declared that right in a memorandum, Linder examines OSHA’S record of enforcement in Void Where Prohibited Revisited.

Void Where Prohibited mobilized public opinion to pressure the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue its 1998 memorandum declaring that the industrial sanitation standard “requires employers to make toilet facilities available so that employees can use them when they need to do so.” (Previously, OSHA claimed that its requirement that employers provide toilets did not obligate them to let workers use those toilets.)