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Is it violating labor law to tell someone they cannot use the restroom or institute a new attendance policy without notifying employees?

I won't say where I work in the interest of job security (long story short is that the company I work for has given me reason to believe that if this is traced to me that I will lose my job and I cannot afford that) but I have a bit of story here to tell, and I'm curious if my active suspicion are misplaced or not. So, about a week ago, I had to use the restroom. Where I work (I will say it is a truck stop setting) we have an hourly check on our restrooms. My need to use the restroom coincided with one of those checks, so I hopped on our radios and asked if I could go use the restroom and while I was up there I would take care of said check. Was told no, and no attempt was made to come cover my…


I won't say where I work in the interest of job security (long story short is that the company I work for has given me reason to believe that if this is traced to me that I will lose my job and I cannot afford that) but I have a bit of story here to tell, and I'm curious if my active suspicion are misplaced or not.

So, about a week ago, I had to use the restroom. Where I work (I will say it is a truck stop setting) we have an hourly check on our restrooms. My need to use the restroom coincided with one of those checks, so I hopped on our radios and asked if I could go use the restroom and while I was up there I would take care of said check. Was told no, and no attempt was made to come cover my desk to let me do so. I ended up being forced to, 20 minutes later, go and use the restroom up in one of our showers that went off as I went up there to turn.

I'm also wondering how legal it is for a new company to put into play a new attendance policy but outside of announcing it prior to it going active, not actually say if or when it was going active. The policy, to keep it brief, is where we are now on a 10 point system. A call-in for any reason is I believe half a point, being late, even only if it is a minute due to traffic or an accident or weather, is a full point. A no call is 2. After 10, you're gone. Thing is…we were never told when it was going live and based on comments I heard from a manager, I think it may have been live for at least a week now.

Either of these things worth taking to the labor board? I live in Michigan.

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