A company in China has given strange and bizarre order to its employees. The company, which is based in South China, says that if an employee takes more than one toilet break he/she should be fined. Chinese company Anpu Electronics Science and Technology has issued these strange order.
A manager from the company explained that the company introduced the policy because some employees often smoked in the toilet and tended to slack off during work hours, Guangdong TV reported.
“We are helpless. The fact is that the workers are lazy at work,” he was quoted as saying. “The management talked with those workers many times, but didn’t achieve a positive result yet.”
The Dongguan-based company in China's Guangdong region has started charging employees 20 yuan penalties on employees who use the lavatory more than once a day. The company has said that such behavior of the employees is against the discipline of the company. The company has fined seven employees on December 20 and 21. This rule is seen in Charlie Chaplin's much talked about movie Modern Times. The company has claimed that it violates the company’s rule of a once-a-day toilet break. It also includes a requirement for employees to register with their boss when they are going to the toilet.
The toilet-break penalty has caught the attention of many and said the rule was illegal. Many have asked the company to rectify the order and refund the penalty it imposed on employees.