If you have not had a labor and employment lawyer review your handbook and other policies, you are doing your business a severe disservice, and taking a huge risk, in this hyperactive regulatory environment. Eating at your desk causes bacteria through a buildup of food debris and the smells distract colleagues. No employment policy that could potentially impact employees’ ability to discuss work is safe from the NLRB’s scrutiny.
MEMO FOR NO EATING INSIDE THE OFFICE WINDOWS
Moreover, people are just as likely to be the victims of violent crime at Respondent’s drive thru windows as anywhere else on the exterior of the restaurant. In this regard, it does not prohibit customers from eating food purchased at its restaurants while sitting in their cars in the restaurant parking lot. The company has made no showing as to how this rule enhances safety. Respondent’s professed concerns regarding safety in justifying its loitering and solicitation rules are manifestly specious. To give credence to such an explanation would effectively deprive millions of the lowest-paid workers in the United States of the ability to assert their Section 7 rights…. Respondent’s justification for its rules is that its restaurants are located in high-crime areas. When you are eating at work as part of a group, during a potluck or lunch meeting, follow all generally accepted table manners. The judge also was not persuaded by the employer’s professed “safety” concerns for its employees: The ALJ concluded that this policy unlawfully restricted employees’ rights to engage in protected concerted activity because it impeded employees’ ability to gather, and, by implication, discuss wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. Employees who violate this policy may be subject to discipline, up to and including termination.
This policy is designed to prevent the disruption of company business due to unnecessary interaction with non-working employees or non-employees. Former employees who return to the store to speak with employees who are working are loitering. Definitely eating heavier meals and leaving waste in office cubicles is unsafe from both pest control as well as bad odour from waste food items especially in fully a/c offices. If you are off-duty and return to the store to speak with employees who are working, your conduct may be considered loitering.
If you are not working or eating in a store, your conduct may be construed as loitering. Employees are not authorized to remain in the restaurant after work. You should arrive some minutes before your entry hour and leave the as soon as you finish your shift.
MEMO FOR NO EATING INSIDE THE OFFICE DRIVER
Prior to approving a driver and periodically thereafter, the human. Loitering and soliciting either inside or outside on Company premises is strictly prohibited. Employees may not drive any business vehicles without prior approval of their supervisor. In EYM King of Michigan, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge considered the following policy, implemented by a Burger King franchise: You can add “no loitering” rules to its list of victims. It’s no secret that the NLRB is waging a war against facially neutral employment policies.
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