RDH eVillage only has one medal to hand out to a responder to our survey about uniform costs and maintenance. We would like to award it to the Maryland reader who said, “The staff usually picks out the uniforms. It isn't always easy for five women to pick out three uniforms that we can agree on.”
The RDH eVillage survey on the “smaller perks” directed three questions toward the use and maintenance of dental office uniforms:
• Are uniforms provided and paid for by the employer?
• If the employee provides the uniform, is there a "dress code"? For example, do scrubs have to be a specific color or pattern?
• Who assumes responsibility for the laundering of staff uniforms?
A state-by-state breakdown of the results is provided below. But an overall national perspective about uniforms provided by the 840 survey respondents indicate the following:
• 55% of employers provide uniforms to employees.
• 75% of the employees are responsible for laundering uniforms.
• Among the 372 dental hygienists who are not provided uniforms by employers, only 15% have to follow a “dress code” office policy, adhering to a certain color, pattern, or style with the self-purchased uniforms.
The survey published in the March 12 issue of RDH eVillage will result in several upcoming articles. If you have not participated in the survey, please feel free to do so by clicking here.
Responses: SevenEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 71%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%AlaskaResponses: OneEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 100%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: Not applicableEmployee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 0%ArizonaResponses: 22Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 36%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 7%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 86%Comments:• Doctor occasionally gives us $100 towards uniforms but not on a regular basis.Arkansas
Responses: 2
Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 100%
Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: Not applicable
Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 50%
• I can choose my own style but the doctor prefers we all wear a few choices of colors and no prints• We provide and launder our own scrubs but a service takes care of laundering all our lab jackets, which are provided by our boss.• He takes scrub jackets home to wash. I do all my own washing, and rest of staff wash the rest of their scrubs.• In our state, the employer is responsible for either providing lab coats through a service for us or else laundering them on the premises. We are provided with lab coats (he lets us choose the patterns), but we provide our own scrubs at our expense in whatever color we choose.• It's such a pleasant office that I don't mind taking care of my own uniforms. I prefer to pick my own style of uniform rather than wearing what I'm told since I'm an odd size.• Doctor ignores OSHA standards regarding laundering uniforms, although he is compliant with most other standards.• I feel that we should get an allowance, due to the fact that we are asked to wear certain colors on specific days.• We are responsible for all purchases and care of our scrubs and jackets, which I believe is illegal in our state but is common practice.• My employer says he doesn't care what the "rules" are on dentists supplying uniforms and maintenance. He isn't going to pay a dime. If we want a job, we supply our own.• I take care of my own uniforms. When we all wore the same uniforms, some members didn't iron theirs and looked unkempt. I didn't like being identified with the "bad" appearances on staff. I would rather wear something that complemented my size and tastes.Colorado
Responses: 13Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 39%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 29%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 77%Comments:
• We used to have a laundry service every week. That was really nice since we can't wear our scrubs to or from work. But now we have to launder our own, still not able to wear them in or out. But we work 10-hour days, and it was nice not to have to do laundry too.• We are provided with lab coats and have a washer and dryer on site to clean them.• We get $150 annually toward work attire. We wear business casual with a longer white lab coat.• He used to pay for my uniforms. But after 12 years of working for him, I choose to pay for my own since he is so generous in many other ways.Connecticut
Responses: 15Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 53%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 73%Comments:
• Employer also provides lab coats and has a service launder them.• Office supplies lab coats, which is the only thing they launder. That is all they are required to do.• We get a stipend towards uniforms every month.Delaware
Responses: 8Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 75%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 63%Comments:
• Our scrub jackets are washed on site by an employee, but my uniforms are washed by me .• Employer provides scrub jacket only and also launders them. No other assistance.• Our employer only provides scrub jackets; we provide the pants and shirts.Florida
Responses: 43Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 44%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 5%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 98%Comments:
• There should be a washing machine; everyone wears clothes home.• Our employer buys all our scrubs and protection equipment such as lab coats and goggles. We have onsite laundry and take turns washing staff/ doctor's uniforms daily.• We receive $100 each year; the rest is up to us.• We are merely given a total of $100 for full-time employees. The front desk, assistants, and hygienists all decide on their own colors for what day.• We have a washer and dryer in the office, though only jackets are washed there. Tops and pants are worn home and washed at home. Employees take turns doing the wash daily or every other day at work.Georgia
Responses: 16Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 50%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 29%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 81%Comments:
• I wish that we "all" took the time to look more professional.• We have an in-house laundry(washer and dryer) for uniforms.Hawaii
Responses: ThreeEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 67%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 33%Comments:
• We have an in-office laundry center and change complete sets of uniforms about every couple of years.Idaho
Responses: ThreeEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 100%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: Not applicableEmployee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 33%Comments:
• I like having my scrubs provided for and laundered by the employer. I love the fact that I'm not bringing bacteria-filled scrubs home to my family.Illinois
Responses: 59Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 46%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 14%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 93%Comments:
• We receive a $160 yearly allowance for uniforms, and they provide and launder protective barrier jackets.• We get $100 per year for uniforms.• I like being able to choose my own clothing. The staff are at different weights and ages, and do not dress in the same styles. It would be impossible to make everyone happy.• The long lab coats that we wear are laundered in the dentist's home and are returned to the office smelling like cigarette smoke. The dentist wears a short sleeve jacket. Two people wear scrubs and three people wear street clothes under the lab coat.• I just look at the light at the end of the tunnel. I buy my own uniforms, and I get to use that as a deduction at the end of the year.• The front desk girls all wear suit jackets that match a different color everyday, and all of the staff wear the same uniform (a different color every day). It looks very professional.• We have a washer and dryer in the office, and the assistants usually do the uniforms. They are not as pressed as they were when we sent them out. But as with everything, the bottom line is what matters.• I like choosing what I wear each day. I wash, dry and steam the wrinkles so that my uniforms look crisp. I prefer a patterned top and solid pants. The patterns hide prophy paste spatter, if any.• The last time we bought uniforms we all went shopping together and picked out ones that we all liked and looked good on all of us.• The uniforms are awful and old (not replaced often). They look horrible, like they have been washed one too many times.• Employer pays half for scrubs and pays full price on lab coats. Lab coats are sent to cleaners and employee launders scrub tops and pants at home. Get $200 a year toward shoes, etc.• This a one-dentist small office. He feels that he doesn't need to follow the guidelines, when it comes to laundering our uniforms.• Since we do have a dress code, I feel that the employer should pay for uniforms.Indiana
Responses: 26Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 69%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 13%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 73%Comments:
• Employer bought half of our uniforms, and we bought the rest. We have to wash them at home.• I take home and wash my own uniforms; prefer my detergent and I hand dry my tops.• When I was hired two years ago, I was assured that I would get a uniform allowance twice a year, since we are required to wear a certain color each day. I have yet to receive that allowance.• Need new ones every year. Waits too long to replace them and they start looking shabby.• He supplies full-length gowns to cover the scrubs.• The employee does laundering of the scrubs, and the employer does laundering of our lab jackets.• A washer was provided for our scrub tops.• I prefer neatly pressed uniforms — nothing childish and cartoonlike ... professional looking.Iowa
Responses: EightEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 88%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 100%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 38%Comments:
• The doctor doesn't replace them every year, so they start to look really bad.• We are given an annual scrub allowance to help with that expense. I am the only staff member that has my scrubs laundered by my employer. I felt very strongly that I did not want to be washing scrubs in my machine that are contaminated from normal activities in the dental office.• Part time 1 scrub set per year paid; full time 2 scrub sets per year.Kansas
Responses: 11Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 55%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 82%Comments:
• Office provides and cleans lab coats only.• We tried several years back asking if our employer would help with uniform allowance but he declined.Kentucky
Responses: SixEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 83%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 100%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Louisiana
Responses: SixEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 33%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 25%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Maine
Responses: 0Maryland
Responses: 22Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 55%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 22%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 63%Comments:
• Lab coats are laundered by a service.• The staff usually picks out the uniforms. It isn't always easy for five women to pick out three uniforms that we can agree on.• I received three work tops that matched others in the office three years ago, when I started working there. Pants and replacement tops are paid for by the employee.• We have an in-office washer/dryer, and one of the assistants does it weekly.• Employer has washer and dryer for onsite laundering. He washes all his scrubs there and will wash other staff members scrub jackets.Massachusetts
Responses: 30Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 50%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 15%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 73%Comments:
• I feel that this should be a part of the benefit package, such as an annual allowance.• Lab jackets are provided for and laundered for personnel.• Doctor will replace at any given moment at our request or if he feels they are fading.• $100 a year uniform allowance.• We get $2 per every hour we work a week for uniform allowance per year. So 30 hrs = $60 per year.• The employer purchases our uniforms, and we have a company that comes weekly and picks up our dirty uniforms for laundering and drops off clean uniforms for the week.• Lab coats are taken care of financially by the employer, and he also has them laundered. We are responsible for scrub purchase and laundering.• I wish that we had an in-office laundering option. I would gladly take advantage of it. In a previous office, we did have onsite laundry and I appreciated it very much!Michigan
Responses: 38Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 68%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 18%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 75%Comments:
• We are given $100 towards our scrubs. As you probably are aware, that doesn't go far, so we do pay for some of our own uniforms.• She provides jackets only, and those get professionally cleaned, but we must provide the rest.• Uniform scrubs are ordered through the office. We are given an allowance for shoes.• Doctor has linen service for the white scrub jackets he provides.• Doctor paid for uniforms once and we are now responsible for wearing the same colors three years later.• Some uniforms are paid by the employer, but on an inconsistent basis.Minnesota
Responses: 21Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 60%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 25%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 52%Comments:
• We have a washing machine and dryer in the office and we do our laundry there.• We are able to wash them at our office. They are never brought home to launder.• We receive $180 per year toward uniforms or shoes.• We receive $40 towards shoes as well as all uniforms paid for (one uniform per day of work a week). • Laundering is done in the office; we have full sized washer and dryer.Mississippi
Responses: TwoEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 0%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Missouri
Responses: 16Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 56%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 20%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 88%Comments:
• I feel as if it would be a nice benefit for the employer to buy the scrubs yearly.• I feel they should be provided since they mandate what we wear. Lab coats are provided and laundered on site.• I'm fine with that. I prefer to wear what I want and scrubs are very inexpensive.• We pay 1/2 for the scrubs, and my employer pays for the lab coat.• Jackets are replaced one to two times a year. Scrub pants are replaced as necessary.Montana
Responses: ThreeEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 100%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: Not applicableEmployee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 0%Nebraska
Responses: FiveEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 40%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 33%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 60%Comments:
• I work in two offices. One provides scrubs and coats, and they launder them. One provides just coats and launder them.• We were doing fine. The doctors and I dressed in street clothes with a long coat over them, and the assistants wore their white pants with short lab coats. Then the insurance company came in and said we must all look alike. There should be no differentiation between doctor and staff. So I had to go out and buy many pairs of black pants, as did the assistants. The doctors refused to do this, but I'm still required. Finally, this year I decided that I would wear what's in my closet, as long as it looks professional.Nevada
Responses: FourEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 75%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 75%Comments:
• Lab coats are provided by employer and laundered at office.New Hampshire
Responses: EightEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 58%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 63%Comments:
• Since scrubs are required, an allowance should be provided or reimbursement provided. Lab coats are provided and washed in the office, although they are quite old and thin now from so many washings, and we are required to wear them two days to prevent so many frequent washings.• We are provided lab coats, which he pays for and launders: our pants, tops, and shoes are paid by staff members.* All are to be kept at the office. Primarily assistants but sometimes hygienists, when we have a cancellation, do the previous day’s laundry in the office’s washer and drier. If we leave at lunch we must change out of our scrubs first.New Jersey
Responses: 25Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 40%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 21%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 88%Comments:
• The laundering of the lab jackets are taken care of by the doctor.• I receive a uniform allowance yearly and can purchase any type of professional scrubs.• We are required to wear the same and there is no compensation. The patients all comment on how professional it looks. He used to pay for uniforms but no longer does. The staff has decided to continue on our own.• I prefer to launder my own uniforms.• The doctor will provide lab coats when she feels they need to be replaced and any embroidery of logo. • I would appreciate uniform assistance and feel the office staff would look much neater if assistance was given.• New Jersey law requires employers to launder uniforms, but this is rarely the case in most offices and never in mine.New Mexico
Responses: SixEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 67%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%New York
Responses: 44Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 39%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 8%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 82%Comments:
* I always paid for my uniforms and their maintenance.• In the past with previous employers, I would always get at least a yearly voucher for uniforms or something like that. I have to launder my own uniforms.• I have worked in offices where uniforms were provided and all wore the same on particular days. I feel the doctor should provide.• I prefer to do my own. If they are left at the office other employees have been known to wear them. • Only jackets are provided and maintained.North Carolina
Responses: 23Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 52%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 18%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 74%Comments:
• We provide our own scrub top and bottoms, but the office provides the scrub jacket and does the maintenance on the jackets.• We have laundry facilities in the office for us to do our own uniforms.• In the past, she has provided for one pair of pants and one jacket per year, but not since the recession.North Dakota
Responses: SixEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 67%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 83%Comments:
• Lab jackets paid for by employer, all other by employees.Ohio
Responses: 32Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 65%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 20%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 59%Comments:
• My office only supplies the lab jackets that we wear. We provide the rest of the uniform. The office has a laundry service to wash the lab jackets.• My employer provides our lab coats, but we have to purchase our own pants and under garments such as a T-shirt and those are under a dress code.• Washer and dryer on premises. Laundry done by any available employee.Oklahoma
Responses: EightEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 71%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 88%Comments:
• She also provides warm up jackets and pays for the laundry service.• Uniforms are left at the office. They are laundered on site. All employees and employers come and leave in their street clothes.Oregon
Responses: 19Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 90%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 58%Comments:
• We use scrubs that are paid for, but the employer also supplies jackets and OSHA regulation coats, which she launders.• The dental assistants wash the outer clinic jackets for all the employees in the onsite washer/dryer. We all launder our under uniforms at home.• $100 per year allowance to purchase toward scrubs/shoes.• All the assistants in our office rotate laundry responsibilities.• We do the laundering at work. And we have an allowance to be used. We don't always have matching uniforms, but they will be of the same color.• He does not like wild prints. Prefers solids.Pennsylvania
Responses: 43Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 58%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 68%Comments:
• The whole office wears the same uniform for each day, except on the days when the front desk doesn't have a specific uniform and then they can wear their street clothes or casual dress.• Scrubs are provided for our rather large staff. Consequently, inexpensive scrubs are purchased, which don't wear well or look attractive. I would rather coordinate a color for everyone but buy my own with some financial assistance with me paying the difference so I get better quality and appearance.• I worked in one office that offered laundry service and I loved it.• Doctor purchases, provides, and launders lab jackets. We are responsible for scrubs. However, it is not uncommon for us to place an order as an office and for the doctor to pick up the tab.• The doctor’s wife picks out our dental smocks. We purchase our own pants. The employees at our office wash the smocks in the washer and dryer at the office.• In an office with six women of different shapes, sizes, and ages, it becomes a challenge for us to try to choose matching uniforms. We have a limited choice, the cheap ones. We do it, but then most of us are not too happy with the uniforms. But we are happy that we do not have to buy them ourselves. The office staff take turns washing the uniforms in the office washing machine. I prefer to take mine home, because I like to iron mine. The uniforms laundered at the office often look too wrinkled.• I think uniforms should be provided or at least some allowance for them.• I buy scrubs and launder; office supplies lab coats and launders those.• We are reimbursed for two uniforms a year, which we select ourselves. Of course, we have one employee (assistant) who will go out and buy the most expensive uniforms she can find (pants, top, and jacket). Our uniforms are sent out to be laundered.• We follow OSHA policies and never leave the facility wearing our uniforms or work shoes. Our uniforms and laundered at the facility.Rhode Island
Responses: ThreeEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 67%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Comments:
• Our employer provides the entire office with scrub tops and jackets. We are required to purchase out own pants. We all wear black pants.South Carolina
Responses: SevenEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 57%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Comments:
• Laundry service was considered, and the staff decided it would be more of a pain than washing ourselves. The doctor requested that staff pick out patterns and order uniforms. The staff also picked out his smocks.• Uniforms are only supplied about every 18 months and only after the staff must ask several times.South Dakota
Responses: OneEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 100%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: Not applicableEmployee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 0%Tennessee
Responses: NineEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 56%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 100%Comments:
• We use disposable lab coats, scrubs underneath.• He bought us two lab coats, which we must wear on the same days. Monday and Tuesdays khaki, Wednesdays and Thursdays, black. Both are plain and ugly.• Doctor pays for half of the uniforms.Texas
Responses: 31Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 58%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 25%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 93%Comments:
• At my previous office, scrubs were laundered at the office. I feel like this is an important component of infection control. • Boss prefers certain colors on certain days, but since he doesn't pay for them, we wear what we have.• We get new uniforms once a year. We are responsible for the shoes.• We get a yearly scrub allowance.• We wear black plants and blue shirts. They are easily laundered. When I walk in my back door, I throw them into the washer every day.• We only get new uniforms once every three years!Utah
Responses: FourEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 50%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 75%Comments:
• I would rather buy my own scrubs. I get the tax deduction that way.• $50 per year part time and $100 per year full time.Vermont
Responses: FiveEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 75%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 75%Comments:
• We still have uniforms provided, but no one knows the dollar amount. We wait until the boss is in a good mood and ask once a year if we can order more. Recently, the doctor’s wife decided that we get "too much" and he's reduced our allowance to cover only uniforms; no longer does that include shoes!Virginia
Responses: 16Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 60%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 100%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 87%Comments:
• Lab coats are washed at the office and provided by the dentist.• Our office has a service that delivers and launders our uniforms.• The office doesn't purchase our whole uniform. They order two lab coats per year for each of us. The rest is on us.• Employer used to give a uniform allowance, but stopped once the economy went "down."• We work four days a week but only get three uniforms, and we have no say in the color or style.Washington
Responses: 30Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 63%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 22%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 36%Comments:
• They provide lab coats, which they also launder.• It seems absolutely reasonable that the employer pay for uniforms (scrubs) and lawful that they pay for lab coats and launder work attire.• We have a washer machine at work that the employees use to wash the uniforms.• My employer buys only scrub jackets and has them laundered; employees buy their own scrub pants and shirts and launder at home.• This is the first year the office has bought uniforms, three jackets/pants/top.• Our office uses a lab apron that the employer provides and launders but employee must wear scrubs under the lab apron that are the employee’s responsibility to purchase and launder (no restrictions on color or style of scrubs).• Provides only white uniforms.West Virginia
Responses: FourEmployer provides and pays for uniforms: 50%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 0%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 75%Comments:
• Complete scrubs and smocks are provided. We are allowed to wear our own if we want. They can be laundered at the office with the other laundry.Wisconsin
Responses: 29Employer provides and pays for uniforms: 76%Self-purchased uniforms must conform with office policy regarding color/patterns/style: 29%Employee bears responsibility for laundering uniforms: 41%Comments:
• We have OSHA-approved gowns we wear over our scrubs and our employer pays for those and the laundering of those gowns.• Whomever is free during the day changes the laundry. Have washer/dryer downstairs next to locker/changing room.• Scrub jacket is provided; I purchase my own pants any color or style I want.• They launder and provide the knee length lab coats. They reimburse up to a certain amount per year for scrubs.• We all started buying our own tops due to the fact that the doctor would only replace them after they were horrible looking. We like to be colorful and attractive.• Used to get uniform benefits; now taken away due to "tough economy."• Smocks are washed at the office. Scrub pants/tops are washed at home.Wyoming
Responses: None
