Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Linder, Marc

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Nygaard, Ingrid

Description

244 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Rest breaks and the right to urinate on company time

Subject

• Rest periods
• Hours of labor
• Employee rights
• Urination

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• comment.
• bibliographie.
• commentaire.
• bibliografía.
• comentario.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-237) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0801433908 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97035049^

OCLC

• 37675704
• SCSB-10281946

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library