BOSTON — A new law gives people with medical conditions access to employee-only bathrooms at Massachusetts businesses if no public restrooms are available.
Gov. Deval Patrick this week signed the so-called restroom access bill. Massachusetts joins a dozen other states with similar laws.
The law’s supporters say people with inflammatory bowel diseases need immediate access to a bathroom.
Only people with a doctor’s note will be allowed access to employee-only facilities under the law.
The law requires only businesses with three or more employees to give people access to their facilities.
About 30,000 Massachusetts residents suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases.
Good ole Mass-oles. They’re always putting up a “stink” about something…
If you don’t have it, be thankful and if you do this is a life saver.
As a person who suffers from this condition and a friend and relative of several others who have IBS or Crohn’s I have to say this new law is a blessing. Now if the rest of the states will catch up.
What a “crappy” law. Sure hope it allows business to charge a small fee with the use of the restroom.
I would simply say sorry id let you but my toilet is broken…bullcrap I’m cleaning up after anyone! Prove my toilet wasn’t plugged up or broken or being worked on at the minute they needed it….man what is America the land of the free coming to …how are we letting politicians do this to us..? It’s not the toilet use per say it is the fact we are allowing government to intrude on us in every single way possible
Actually i think all Massachusetts people suffer from some type of inflammatory bowel disease.
After decades of Ted Kennedy I would have thought more people had the disease.
yes, but it usually comes out of their mouth.
Having had a family member who suffered with Crohn’s Disease I am very much aware of the pain and suffering as well as the humiliation that people with IBD, Crohn’s and Colitis go through. This should be a law in every state. For those who will impress us all with their ignorant comments just be thankful that you or someone that you know never has the occasion to become afflicted with these terrible diseases.
Holy Crap!
Does the law have a requirement that the user of the bathroom be required to clean up before they leave? I can forsee some IBS sufferer doing his/her business and then just getting up and walking out leaving the place looking like someone slung a jar of giblet gravy all under the rim and down the side of the loo. Thats the main reason businesses don’t want the general public to have access to employee only restrooms. Most people don’t even think twice about keeping their own poo-place clean but it seems that users of public toilets often like to see just how bad they can leave it.
I agree. I maintain a handful of public establishments and have had to deal with some pretty dirty situations because some people are just pigs. They may be sick, but that does not excuse being a pig.
Do you know the amount of crap that comes out of Mass. it’s fitting
Medical ID name tags would keep away the cheaters.. clip it right there on their shirts.