Posted on 11/06/2009 6:03:53 AM PST by JoeProBono
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman was awarded $150,000 in a discrimination suit claiming she had to wear diapers to work due to a lack of toilets.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit against Danella Construction Corp., of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., said Lisa Drozdowski, 37, had to wear adult diapers while she was working as a flagger for the company in 2005 because officials refused to provide portable toilets, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Thursday.
Drozdowski said her bathroom breaks, which involved walking a quarter mile to her car and driving several minutes to the nearest restroom, often came after she had already urinated on herself. She said the company stopped giving her work when she complained about the bathroom breaks and was denied a laborers position.
The commission and Danella entered into a consent decree filed in a court Wednesday. Danella agreed to pay $150,000 to Drozdowski and four other female employees who claimed they were also discriminated against by the company will split a $50,000 payout.
Oh my...
You know, it’s not easy to re-train yourself to “go” in a diaper. I guess it must have been desperate.
why would any company care what they wear underneath their clothing
I have never heard such tripe.
Women wanted traditionally male jobs, so they started hiring them as flagmen, they were pretty useless as laborers as they couldnt do the work, so they hired them as flag people. Now they complain that no portable toilets were available. When were portable toilets ever available for male road workers.? If they cannot accept the uncomfortable aspects of their job they shouldnt take it.
I’m not big on lawsuits but it seems to me that having two porta-potties available wasn’t too much to ask the company to provide. If you’re going to hire women for these positions the least you can do is provide a way for them to go to the bathroom. (Then again, maybe they could have just used the one set up for the men?)
I was a construction inspector. In residential neighborhoods, people were always offering me their bathroom. In lonesome areas, the woods are fine and it's no big deal.
Porta-potties are always set up for road workers. You don’t want your crew taking a dump in the farmer’s field beside the highway. That’s how salmonella is spread by illegal alien farm workers. (Plus it turns off the wife and kids driving by during family vacations.)
I did some work at the Conrail Pavonia Railyard in Camden NJ over a decade ago, and when I asked to use a bathroom they handed me a bucket. I had seen rough railyards before but one without a working toilet — never.
SO - only Female employees were denied bathrooms? How come no men joined the lawsuit?
You open up a whole area of discussion... One that I am kind of afraid to broach myself...
I won’t go so far as to say that women “belong in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant”. But I will say that God’s plan was not for woman to work at men’s jobs to support a family.
Then again, that is part of the bigger message - that God’s picture of family is not relevant to current society. Instead, we must push people to be over-consumers, so that women feel the need to work outside the home to support the family.
I have a question... If a man can do the same job as those women were doing, but don’t feel the need to take frequent bathroom breaks, then why should a woman get paid the same as that man, but then get frequent bathroom breaks that cut significantly into work time?
But wouldn’t it get smelly after a while?
Ditto
I’m in total agreement.
“Women wanted traditionally male jobs, so they started hiring them as flagmen, they were pretty useless as laborers as they couldnt do the work, so they hired them as flag people.”
Remember the lie that females didnt want any special considerations when being hired for these jobs? That lasted about 10 minutes. It must be nice being paid the same to hold a flag as the men get for doing hard labor. I have NEVER seen a woman doing more than holding a flag on a construction site. I guess these suits will continue until they start making portapotties with sofas in them.
The obvious solution is for Congress to get involved and create a new federal bureaucracy to ensure that construction companies provide an adequate number of portable toilets. As conditions will vary, it will be necessary for inspectors to do surveys before startup of any new project and to continue with weekly inspections until the project is complete. Guidelines for the placement and types of portable toilets will need to be considered, as accidental tipping could result in an environmental catastrophy.
What about war widows? New baby, husband killed in the line of duty, what is she suppose to do to provide for her babies?
Who decides what jobs are considered "men's" jobs and what jobs are considered "women's" job
“Who decides what jobs are considered “men’s” jobs and what jobs are considered “women’s” job”
To me there is nothing more ridiculous than these flag holding females that work for construction companies. A construction job is one in which the individual hired is able to do the very heavy labor involved at the site. Holding a flag was once just a job the guys shared at points in the work day. Women are not physically able to do most construction work on roadways, and given our politically correct climate for the last 30 years, they are hired to hold flags and stop signs all day. This woman should consider herself lucky because here in NY anyway, construction workers make a very high hourly wage. It seems to me that she was denied a laborer position, and then decided to get back at the company for the perceived slight. Most women I know would rather go to the bathroom behind a building than use adult diapers if there is no medical reason to do so. This lady sounds like a nut, and the courts should be ashamed they gave her 5 cents.
Flagmen....usually the contractors niece around here....unless she's really good looking....then they're accidents waiting to happen!!
My son is in the Navy, and they've attempted to fully integrate women into the daily work routines. He says the women tend to stand around and don't want to get their hands dirty. The men have to take up the slack, and if it's a five person job, and two of them are women... well, you can figure it out. NOW would say my son is a misogynist because he doesn't like being on work crews with women. I know better.
Interesting point.
“Who decides what jobs are considered “men’s” jobs and what jobs are considered “women’s” job”
I do. Next question?
Not in my state they arent.
Perhaps at a site that will be stationary for a week or so they may set up a porta pottie, but where the electric company is cutting brush and moving forward as it’s cut there are no potties, for their flag people.Where the state highway is cleaning the ditches they have no pottie.
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