Going to the toilet has been a source of problems since school. Although much has changed for the better today, many of us clearly remember raising our hands and asking teachers for permission. Sometimes they didn’t give permission and you had to wait until the bell rang and the break. It would seem that we will avoid such problems in adult life. It turns out that for some employers, taking care of physiological needs is an unnecessary waste of time. Can an employer prohibit using the toilet during work?
Can an employer prohibit using the toilet? The lawyer speaks clearly
Lawyer Marcin Kruszewski actively works on , where he tries to explain legal complexities. This time, it was a video that has been circulating on the platform for some time. It shows an employee walking nervously and shifting from one foot to the other, all because “she is not allowed to use the toilet” and “there is an hour left until the end of the shift.” Kruszewski decided to dispel doubts.
– Do we always have to wait for a break or the end of work to go to the toilet? Can the employer not allow us to use the toilet? – he asked first. He quickly answered the viewers’ questions. – Absolutely not! However, this does not result directly from the Labor Code. An employee has the right to meet his or her physiological needs, he emphasized. A person has the right to “preserve human dignity”. Such prohibitions, although they do not directly violate the Labor Code, violate personal rights. Thus, the employer may expose itself to civil liability.
Can an employer prohibit using the toilet during work? Internet users comment
This issue was also discussed by Paulina Zawadzka-Filipczyk, legal advisor and expert in labor law. She answered the question, whether the employer has the right to prohibit an employee from using the toilet during work. Although the regulations on this matter are not clear, in her opinion the employer does not have such a right. As he points out, we are talking about a basic physiological activity and prohibitions in this matter would be an abuse. An employer who forbade an employee from using the toilet or made him work for the time spent there could be “charged with abuse of law”.
The film published by Marcin Kruszewski aroused a lot of emotions. Although some commenters pointed out that the recording that served as a pretext for the lawyer’s explanation was a joke, some cited their stories related to workplace bans. Some Internet users wrote directly that they had problems at work because during their periods they had to go to the toilet more often to change a pad or tampon.
I was fired from work because I was ‘going to the toilet’.
Who do you have to be to forbid going to the toilet?
In the call center, every trip to the toilet was included in the break during which the phone did not ring; if you exceeded it, it was a disciplinary call.
Termination and I’m gone.
Source: Gazeta
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