Staff Facilities

ohreally

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

Also, is there a rule telling employers you must have a toilet for every X employees? At the call centre I mentioned above regarding the lack of personal space, there were ONLY 3 toilets for about 150-180 women on the our floor we work on. One day, we were unable to go to use any toilet as the toilets on our floor were broken, the caretaker never showed up so the toilets by the main door were locked. There were other toilets available, but unable to use as our swipe cards wouldn't allow us to open some doors. My employer should have let us to go home as it's illegal.

From the 1992 welfare regs...http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm

Your employer could have been prosecuted by the enforcing authority.

Here's an example of a company being issued an improvement notice ny the HSE for failing to provide suitable and sufficient conveniences...http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/notices/Notice_details.asp?SF=CN&SV=301133926

PasturesNew

I worked for somebody that broke many rules. I'd have been out of a job if I'd tried to get him to do something about it.

The only drinking water was the sink in the loo. The loo was old/filthy and used by the boss, his family, his lodger, visiting friends/anybody. And a lot of his friends were quite hippy.... it was grim. I worked there about 15 months, I refused to clean the loo and it was never cleaned while I worked there.

There was also no first aid box, the glass wasn't safe, the desk was huge from the 1950s and the PC monitor was on top of a box. The chair I sat on wasn't the right size for me. The Cert of Ins Liability I tried to stick on the wall but he ripped it down and tossed it in a drawer. The only socket for the kettle/heater was an extension lead that had 2 burnt out socket holes already.

But I had a job, so it was best to stay quiet and just crack on.

ohreally

PasturesNew wrote: »

The Cert of Ins Liability I tried to stick on the wall but he ripped it down and tossed it in a drawer.

Failure to display an ELI cert can result in a fine of up to £1000 per day.

Jules

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

I work for a supermarket (wearing the uniform) and my tax code automatically changed from 603L to 609L, do you think this is the taxable allowance for uniform laundering?

Yes that's what it should change to. Your employers must do it automatically which is good. Took me months to get mine sorted and at one point the tax office told me I didn't work there! Strange!

PasturesNew

ohreally wrote: »

Failure to display an ELI cert can result in a fine of up to £1000 per day.

I know. I told him that when he came in and said "what's that doing there?" ... right before he ripped it down and tossed it in the drawer.

Employers, eh! Who'd have them!

Saverbabe_2

All this is helpful, but I'm also wondering what others have in the way of changing facilities - like I said, we have to change in the staff room, so it's not all that private!

ohreally

Saverbabe wrote: »

All this is helpful, but I'm also wondering what others have in the way of changing facilities - like I said, we have to change in the staff room, so it's not all that private!

It doesn't really matter what others have, if your employer is failing to meet the duties placed upon them by law then you need to encourage change. Start by pointing out you're aware of some parts of legislation which they may not be complying with and suggest a joint approach to review their current arrangements with a view to improving areas where they may fall short of meeting the requirements.

The next step may be to involve the local environmental health officers....definately a last resort though.

As a point of interest how many employees are there?

Saverbabe_2

About 10 of us. Although there's not usually more than 6 or so on at a time.

Saverbabe_2

Bump! No one else had experience of staff changing facilities where they have to change at work? I don't really want to involve environmental health - would the council be that bothered about it if I did involve them?