Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. “Too many workers tell stories about urinating on themselves, or witnessing coworkers urinating on themselves. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team. Workers were waiting an hour or more and then racing across vast, often slippery workshop floors to accomplish the task quickly enough to avoid being disciplined, Oxfam added. After a three-year project interviewing dozens of current and former workers across the country, Oxfam came to this stark conclusion: Routinely, poultry workers say, they are denied breaks to … There are about 250,000 poultry farm workers in the U.S., according to Oxfam. At a recent convening of the poultry worker coalition, she shared her story with Oxfam, which is continuing to work for improved conditions and compensation for poultry workers. But Big Poultry's bathroom trouble has been known for a while. A report from international advocacy group Oxfam says poultry workers in the United States labor in a “climate of fear”, with some forced to wear diapers on the job.. Workers were waiting an hour or more and then racing across vast, often slippery workshop floors to accomplish the task quickly enough to avoid being disciplined, Oxfam added. Oxfam America said the poultry companies are violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards, U.S. anti-discrimination laws and civil rights laws. As the Oxfam report notes, "Denial of regular access to the bathroom is a clear violation of US workplace safety law." U.S. poultry plant workers are routinely denied adequate washroom breaks, leading some to wear diapers on the job, anti-poverty group Oxfam America says in a report. After years of working in poultry processing in North Carolina, Irma became a leader in a local workers’ center. We are withholding her last name at her request. For a 2013 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed Alabama poultry workers on the conditions they face.