Motelmedewerkers in Australië mogen niet gapen
Medewerkers van een Australisch motel mogen van hun baas niet geeuwen of aan het bandje van hun beha zitten. Ook mogen ze niet aan hun haar of hun neus zitten. Doen ze dit wel, dan kunnen ze volgens hun contract worden ontslagen. Zo bericht een Australische tv-zender op zijn website.
Vakbonden in Australië zijn woedend over het contract. De moteleigenaar verdedigt zich door te stellen dat hij iemand nooit om een van deze redenen zou ontslaan. “Het staat alleen maar in het contract zodat het personeel zich bewust is van hun gewoontes. Het enige wat ik wil is dat ze hun handen wassen nadat ze in hun neus hebben gepeuterd of aan hun mond hebben gezeten.” 24 mei 2007 © Monsterboard.nl
Hier het stukje van ABC NEWS Online
Motel defends ‘body habits’ link to AWA
A motel that asks its staff not to yawn or push their hair out of their eyes while at work says they would not sack anyone for doing so.
Lilac City Motor Inn in Goulburn, asks new staff to sign an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) that takes away penalty rates and leave loading and asks for compliance with a staff handbook.
The handbook says it is unacceptable for staff to rub their nose, clean their eyes, yawn or push their hair behind their ears at work.
Motel co-owner Joanne Doolan says it only applies to staff working in the restaurant area.
“All I’m asking them to do is that they’re aware of personal body habits,” she said.
"If it’s something that can affect somebody else that’s … eating food, then they just wash their hands after they’ve done it.
“People are going to readjust their hair or scratch their nose or whatever, all I want them to do is wash their hands after they’ve done that.”
Unions NSW says it is outraged a person could be sacked under the AWA.
Secretary John Robertson says that while the motel says it would not sack someone for scratching their nose, it would be able to under work place laws.
“This AWA as it’s formed is what we’re going to see more and more becoming the norm if John Howard’s elected this year again as Prime Minister.”
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says the AWA highlights the unfairness of the current industrial relations regime and is another example of the need to change the system.
“When you have examples like that, it points to the fact that Australian laws have gone too far,” he said.