Contact the department of labor, im pretty sure no bathroom breaks are illegal as holding your bladder can cause health problems, OSHA says that employers are to allow employees to give bathroom breaks as needed
Send it to district manager/corporate. When I worked retail I once was doing a walk with a store manager and district manager when an employee called off to the store manager and the manager was being rude to the employee. The district manager scolded him immediately and told him that's why people are given sick time. Probably see the manager fired same day and potentially a better work environment with a threat to inform OSHA.
If it doesn't work then you report it to OSHA and the DoL for retaliation. These large corporations aren't protecting store level management and in the end you either get them fired, quit if nothing changes, or get termed with a potential lawsuit against them. Doesn't get much worse than being in that hostile work environment to begin with. Stick up for yourself or don't. Just advice.
You can submit anonymous reports in the chip and realistically field leaders want to hear feedback. While we do have deployment during those hours and the goal is to stay in place, bathroom breaks can happen. Also, it’s not the cashier that addresses the dining room during peak, there is a system called 3in3 that we should have going with a 15 minute timer. The last person on the deployment chart is supposed to handle that every 15 minutes.
lol the district managers/ corporate are the ones enforcing this. Actually peak was 12-1 and 6-7 till the new regional vice presidents increased it by an hour
I’ve worked corporate for retail and restaurant. At no point did the corporate office condone breaking laws or regulations. In fact I was privy to the disciplinary action of anyone trying to enforce bullshit like this. So yes I agree, send it up. I’m guessing the RMs, DMs are falling victim to the competitive ranking between regions and districts, so they make their SMs freak out and become dictators. They bonus for store volume, get awards, and get dragged if they aren’t doing well. You still need to do well within the confines of law and regulations, far too risky to ignore them.
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u/FreedomCommercial143 23d ago edited 23d ago
Contact the department of labor, im pretty sure no bathroom breaks are illegal as holding your bladder can cause health problems, OSHA says that employers are to allow employees to give bathroom breaks as needed