I’ll tell you. In the state of Michigan, you have no rights to bathroom breaks or lunch breaks. Here’s what LARA, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has to say about it.
Are employees required by law to have a meal or break period?
Agency: Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Employees under 18 years of age may not work more than 5 continuous hours without a 30 minute uninterrupted rest period. There are no requirements for breaks, meal or rest periods for employees 18 years of age or older.
The answers provided are not meant to be a substitute for legal advice.
I know you won’t believe it, so here is the website address. Look it up for yourself.
https://www.michigan.gov/...
For more, read below the fold.
Right to work is the so-called “right” to work for slave wages, minimum wage only, with slave hours and treatment. It is now 10:45 p.m. My husband has been gone since 4:30 a.m. to get daily work with an outfit called Labor Ready. The same outfit that has a class action lawsuit filed against it in the state of California for the following reasons:
not paying all overtime wages;
not providing employees with meal and/or rest breaks;
not paying employees one hour of pay as required by law for each missed meal or rest break;
not providing employees proper wage statements (pay stubs);
not paying California minimum wage (relating to hours worked off-the-clock);
not reimbursing employees for all incurred business expenses;
not paying wages timely during employment; and
unlawfully deducting wages for using the cash dispensing machines (unlawful deduction of wages and unlawful discount of wages).
Here’s the website if you want to see more information, particularly if you recently worked for Labor Ready in California: http://capstonelawyers.com/....
My sister and her boyfriend are working 7 days a week, 12 hour shifts in a plant that is not air conditioned. This is called mandatory overtime. If you don’t work it, you lose your job. It’s a union plant—part of the steel workers union. She's making more than minimum wage but all she does is sleep and work. Unfortunately, the union is really just an extension of the plant management. Whatever the bosses want the union provides. Don’t get me wrong. I am definitely a union supporter. My father was a lifetime member of the AFL-CIO. The story goes that just about the time Reagan was doing his union busting, unions and their members sat on their hands and let Reagan get away with what he was doing. What would have happened if every union employee had gone on strike in support of the Air Traffic Controllers? Perhaps union busting would not have become one of the top 3 goals of the RepubicHair party along with keeping women barefoot and pregnant second class citizens and working to keep our LGBTQ brothers and sister in the proverbial closet with no rights at all!
Folks, we need an employee bill of rights, giving us the constitutional right to work at a living wage for 40 hours a week. Overtime that is strictly voluntary. Bosses and supervisors need to lose their rights to be dictators and make people’s lives living hells. And, most of all, we need what Robert Reich and others have been advocating—guaranteed minimum income for all.
What we have in Michigan is the right to be a slave to low wages and poor treatment.
By the way, there is no class action suit against Labor Ready in the state of Michigan. Apparently, whatever they do here is perfectly legal.