Employment Law Checklist Project: Toilets are Required — in Foundries, if Ordered, and Tobacco Plantations. And That’s It.
It’s been a long while since this blog went into the toilet. But in this Employment Law Checklist Project, there are two employment laws we need to tackle together that highlight the very specific nature of some laws and how they remain on the books. Yes, I’m talking about the two employment laws that require toilets in two industries. The first of these is Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 31-36. It provides that: The commissioner shall have authority by order to that effect to require the proprietor of any foundry in which ten or more persons are employed, situated in a locality where there is such system for the disposal of sewage as to make such order practicable, to provide for the use of such employees a toilet room of such suitable dimensions as said commissioner determines, containing washbowls or sinks connected with running water, with facilities for heating the same, such room to be directly connected with such foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected...