Thursday, November 12, 2009

Unite Members Protest At "Docked" Pay For Toilet Breaks

Unite is in a dispute with bosses at a meat processing plant amid claims workers are being docked pay to take toilet breaks.

Officials from Unite say they have evidence from 100 hundred workers at the Dunbia plant in Sawley, Lancs, that their wage is cut every time they go to the lavatory.

But the company has strongly denied the claims — and said employees’ weekly wages were compensated for any money taken away for toilet breaks.

A third of the workforce at the plant in Gisburn Road have submitted an official grievance to the company bosses demanding a change in the toilet break policy, according to Unite.

Cathy Rudderforth, regional officer for Unite said they tried to speak to Dunbia ‘numerous times’ in recent weeks but the company refused to talk to Unite.

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