The human right for McDonald's employees not to wash their hands

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Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I read the article, but I also worked for McDonald's for 5 years in high school and college. Many of these restaurants are franchises. The administrative work is done by the managers in between working at the grill and food service up front. I never worked in the grill, but would have to wash my hands a lot as a cashier. Fries, ketchup, mustard...food gets on you even using the best of care. The other option would be to clean up the dining room, but you need to use cleaning fluids out there as well. And you can't tell me she wouldn't want to wash her hands after picking up other people's garbage? The fact of the matter is that everyone has to wash their hands in a restaurant and everyone wears different hats when working there. I can't think of a reasonable accomadation.

I guess she could have gone to work for corporate McDonald's, but are they local to her?

Exactly. I worked in a restuarant too, if you don't want to wash your hands every so often then something is wrong with you because any time there is food it will get on you if you are around it/handling it.

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After reading this article I became so sensitive to handwashing! Yesterday I was in Cheesecake Factory and two customers came in (neither used the handicap bathroom with comes with the sink inside just for reference). I went to wash my hands as usual and noticed two women walk out without even so much as glancing at the sink. People just don't want to wash. I think this also ties in to the post in I think Chit Chat about B.O. Anyways, I couldn't believe it because A) you're eating! and B) The bathroom isn't nasty so they had no reason to not want to touch the sink. Plus they provide paper towels so you can use them to shut off the sink after. I was severely grossed out.