Dunkin Donuts Employee Handbook
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Dunkin Donuts Employee Handbook
This rule made us laugh. Something about seeing "SOCKS: Must be worn at all times," in the employee handbook just feels hilarious and bizarre. The coffee and donut chain cites their "health and sanitation policies" as the reason for this decree, which we could see a case being made for. One quick Google search of "is wearing socks more sanitary than not?" turns up pages worth of articles about how socks absorb moisture, should probably be changed every day, and how not wearing them could indeed be bad for your health. Didn't know socks were such a hot topic in the health arena? You're not alone.
Ah, the office romance. A tale as old as time, and one made even sweeter when "the office" is packed with powdery donuts. It's no surprise that Dunkin' addresses workplace relationships in their handbook, any quality employer should probably consider the reality that eight-hour shifts alongside coworkers often blossoms into something more. But the tactics they outline for how they handle romances that develop over the Coolatta machine are rather odd. First, if two co-workers become involved with each other, move in together, or get married, Dunkin' "will first attempt to offer comparable employment in another department/store to one of the individuals." Basically, one partner needs to move to another franchise location. Maybe Dunkin simply subscribes to the notion that absence makes the heart grow fonder?
The Dunks employee handbook is, in many ways, a very standard document. The paragraphs run into each other, broken up occasionally by a bullet point or subtitle. But near the end, an entire sentence sits bolded, standing out starkly from the rest of the document: "We will not be able to offer employment to any employee that cannot work weekends."
Existence of contract incorporating handbook. Host argues that the employee manual gave the plaintiff no contractual rights because of the clearly stated intent not to create a contract (see note 4, supra) and that, in addition, the reservation of a unilateral right to disregard or cancel the manual (see note 5, supra) made any contract illusory and unenforceable. Those arguments might have been tenable under language in Jackson v. Action for Boston Community Dev., Inc., 403 Mass. 8 (1988), which appeared to recognize the efficacy of such clauses to prevent the creation of contractual obligations to the employee. However, the Jackson decision was quite explicitly clarified by the later decision of O'Brien v. New England Tel. & Tel. Co., 422 Mass. 686 , 691- 694 (1996). [Note 9] That decision followed the lead of such cases as Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mich., 408 Mich. 579 (1980), and Woolley v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., 99 N.J. 284, modified on other grounds, 101 N.J. 10 (1985), in calling for the provisions of such manuals to be enforced to the extent that they instill a reasonable belief in the
character of those specific items. "The doctrine of ejusdem generis is applicable: 'Where general words follow specific words in an enumeration describing the legal subject, the general words are construed to embrace only objects similar in nature to those objects enumerated by the preceding specific words.' 2A Sands, Sutherland Statutory Construction 47:17 (4th ed. 1973)." Dickson v. Riverside Iron Works, Inc., 6 Mass. App. Ct. 53 , 55-56 (1978) (using doctrine to construe contract). See Santos v. Bettencourt, 40 Mass. App. Ct. 90 , 92 (1996) (in statute describing "a place of assembly, theater, special hall, public hall, factory, workshop, manufacturing establishment or building," the word building does not include a house). See also USM Corp. v. Arthur D. Little Sys., Inc., 28 Mass. App. Ct. 108 , 116 (1989) (interpretation of contract is question of law for court, whose objective is to "construe the contract as a whole, in a reasonable and practical way, consistent with its language, background, and purpose"). The items on Host's list purpor