swipe card for work toilets-legal?

buel

Hi, apparently our employers are going to issue swipe cards for the workers to use when we use our works toilets in an effort to curb people 'wasting time' in there. Please can anyone advise if this is legal?

12bdebt3

Perfectly legal. It will probably be logged when people go in and out of the toilet and what times. There is a company in the office block that I work in that have the same thing using fobs.

Pete111

buel wrote: »

Hi, apparently our employers are going to issue swipe cards for the workers to use when we use our works toilets in an effort to curb people 'wasting time' in there. Please can anyone advise if this is legal?

Yes - why wouldn't it be? We are not talking cameras here.

It doesn't show a great deal of managerial trust in their workforce but If you don't like it you can of course resign.

Blackpool_Saver

I bet the boss doesn't have to

buel

Blimey Pete111, calm down will you? Resign? I didn't mean i want to start a revolution, i simply wanted to know if it was legal! And to Blackpool saver- ha ha, im sure you are right!!

Pete111

buel wrote: »

Blimey Pete111, calm down will you? Resign? I didn't mean i want to start a revolution, i simply wanted to know if it was legal! And to Blackpool saver- ha ha, im sure you are right!!

The resignation bit was tounge in cheek but you do occasionally get some rather left wing frothing / wind ups on here along the lines of 'my boss called me in for a meeting during the last 2 minutes of my lunch break and then refused to let me leave work at 5.28 - can I sue?'

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't like it either but I guess ultimately I was curious as to why you questioned it's legality - it's not something that immediately jumps out to me as being an illegal act.

System

But it might be indirect sex discrimination!

Pete111

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

But it might be indirect sex discrimination!

Installing the key card system isn't....

...But a canny lawyer might argue that allowing men and women exactly the same time for their ablutions is!!

(what a world eh?)

westv

But what happens if you are polite and hold the door to the toilets open for each other? How does a swipe card deal with that?

spugzbunny

Imagine if you had the shizzles? Not only do you have to go through the embarrassment of doing that at work but also the shame of having to explain to HR why you were in there for twenty mins every half an hour!

buel

Hi+thanks for the answers! Ok, we are now on a 4 day week! At the start of the year we gave up 4 of our holidays to cover this Christmas period. This year 2 of those days happen to be fridays(that we now dont work). Our employer has told us that those 2 days holiday will be rolled over to next year. Is this fair being as we accrued said holidays during this current year? Shouldn't they be given back to us?