re: Is this banking behavior normal? Re: Holding check

My employer uses Regions, while I use a different bank. There's not really a branch for my bank close to my office, and every now and then I'll get a small reimbursement check. I took one to the Regions across the street, the one my employer uses, to cash a $10 reimbursement check. They were going to charge me to cash a check drawn on their account. I forget how much the fee was, something like 2% or $25, whichever was lower. It was the most insane thing I'd ever heard. My employer even called the branch manager when I told him about it, and the branch manager was powerless over it.