Chinese Company Fines Employees Who Use The Toilet More Than Once Per Day
A private Chinese company has given a strange order to its employees not to use the toilet more than once during office hours. In addition, it is a requirement for all workers to register with their bosses before they can use the toilet in the office. Officials explained that the company introduced the policy because some ‘lazy’ workers abuse the toilet break and use that period to smoke and avoid their duties. One manager told state media Guangdong TV that: ‘We are helpless. That fact is the workers are lazy at work. The management talked with those workers many times but didn’t achieve a positive result yet’. Management insists it is company policy and
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the freedom of going to the toilet is a luxury so every worker should conform to the rule. Kasatintin News gathers that at least seven employees have been fined 20 yuan ($3) for breaching this draconian policy. The amount was deducted from their monthly bonus in December 2020. Management however deems the toilet break-limiting rule a better alternative to firing staff, because finding new workers would have been more difficult. Netizens have blasted the company management, calling the rule exploitative and humiliating. Some organizations have introduced similar rules in the past by installing timers on bathroom stalls. Another also spent 2 million yuan to block internet service in its bathrooms. SOURCE: Kasatintin News



