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<blockquote data-quote="gandydancer" data-source="post: 415219" data-attributes="member: 9310">&quot;Allowing employees to use toilet facilities during working hours does not meet the employer&#039;s obligation to provide rest periods as required by the IWC Orders. This is not to say, of course, that employers do not have the right to reasonably limit the amount of time an employee may be absent from his or her work station; and, it does not indicate that an employee who chooses to use the toilet facilities while on an authorized break may extend the break time by doing so. DLSE policy simply prohibits an employer from requiring that employees count any separate use of toilet facilities as a rest period.&quot; <a href="http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_restperiods.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_restperiods.htm</a>&nbsp;You don&#039;t need to clock out to go to the bathroom, and you can&#039;t be prevented from washing before and after, but maybe not up to the elbows. In California, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gandydancer, post: 415219, member: 9310"] "Allowing employees to use toilet facilities during working hours does not meet the employer's obligation to provide rest periods as required by the IWC Orders. This is not to say, of course, that employers do not have the right to reasonably limit the amount of time an employee may be absent from his or her work station; and, it does not indicate that an employee who chooses to use the toilet facilities while on an authorized break may extend the break time by doing so. DLSE policy simply prohibits an employer from requiring that employees count any separate use of toilet facilities as a rest period." [URL]http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_restperiods.htm[/URL] You don't need to clock out to go to the bathroom, and you can't be prevented from washing before and after, but maybe not up to the elbows. In California, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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