In Switzerland, it's legal for companies to make workers clock out before using the bathroom

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When nature calls in Switzerland, workers can either (try to) ignore their physiological needs, or clock out.

That’s the ruling from a Swiss court, which found that watchmaker Jean Singer & Cie SA was not required to pay workers for time spent on the toilet. The cased underlined a loophole in the country’s labor laws.