{"id":33625,"date":"2003-03-24T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fined-for-going-to-the-toilet\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:50:28","slug":"fined-for-going-to-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fined-for-going-to-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fined for going to the toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSome firms dock employees’ pay when they answer the call of nature. But, says Roisin Woolnough, relief may be at hand thanks to a new TUC campaignGoing to the toilet is a basic human need. And, you would have thought, a basic human right. Not so in some companies, says the Trades Union Congress, which has launched a campaign to give workers the right to toilet breaks. The TUC claims there are companies in every industry sector that dictate when staff go to the toilet and some that dock wages for the time spent there. “There has been a growing swell of trade unionists coming to us saying this is a problem,” says Owen Tudor, health and safety specialist at the TUC. “We had, by and large, assumed that this was no longer a problem and that with the new European laws on workplace health and safety facilities, which make it a legal requirement to have loos at work, that the problem of people not being allowed to go when they want or being charged for it had gone away.” Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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