Void where prohibited : rest breaks and the right to urinate on company time / Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard.

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Linder, Marc [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, 1998.
Description
244 pages ; 24 cm

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    "Although federal and state regulations require employers to provide toilets, government agencies, incredibly, do not require employers to permit workers to use them. Marc Linder, a labor lawyer and political economist, and Ingrid Nygaard, a physician specializing in urogynecology, place this regulatory breakdown in the wider context of the history of labor-management struggles over rest periods. They emphasize the physiological consequences that workers suffer when they are not allowed to interrupt work to rest or urinate." "Linder and Nygaard explain how protective rest period legislation has shrunk over time. Ironically, because most statutes singled out women for rest breaks, they were invalidated by Title VII's ban on sex discrimination. The authors explain other countries' regulations and conclude with a recommendation for legislation to mandate rest and bathroom breaks for all workers."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-237) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : From "let them eat cake" to "let them pee in their pants"
    • From Taylorism to ergonomics : a managerial basis for rest periods
    • Bringing incontinence out of the (water) closet
    • Women at rest : the legal status of rest periods before Title VII
    • Sexual equality or "the equality of having no protective laws whatsoever"?
    • Judicial and legislative struggles : repeal or extension of gendered rest periods?
    • How the other half rests : how many modern workers have rest periods?
    • Rest in the rest of the world
    • "Go to the bathroom, please ... we'll wait for you" : from at-will employment to at-will voiding
    • Appendix 1. State rest- and meal-period laws
    • Appendix 2. Percentage of employees not receiving paid rest periods, 1979-1993.
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    Rest breaks and the right to urinate on company time
    ISBN
    • 0801433908 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780801433900 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    97035049
    OCLC
    37675704
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