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No Bathroom Break Policy
No bathroom break policy has
employees wearing diapers.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Cashiers at Chile's Santa Isabel supermarket
chain say their employer is so stingy with their work breaks that they
have had to resort to wearing diapers to make it through shifts without
getting fired. The union at Santa Isabel, owned by Cencosud, one of
Chile's largest chain retailers, said cashiers are not allowed to leave
their work stations during their shifts, which last eight hours or longer.
"They are not given permission to go to the bathroom and they can't
last for so many hours; that's why some have started using diapers
or sanitary pads," Marianela Fernandez, president of the Santa Isabel
Supermarket workers union, told Reuters. Cencosud said any such
incidents would have been isolated. "It is possible that there may
have been isolated cases that were not in compliance with the norms
and procedures of Santa Isabel," Cencosud said in a statement.
"In these instances company policy has been to immediately adopt
the appropriate corrective measures." The complaint has been taken
up by Chile's largest labor organization, the Central Workers Union,
or CUT, which has requested government action in the case.
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I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.