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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Years ago I worked for a huge multinational company that brought in a smoking ban world wide. The German arm of the company gave nonsmokers 7 days extra holidays to make up for the time not taken in smoking breaks over a year. They said smokers would qualify for this extra holiday if they signed up and stuck to a give up smoking course. Once the UK and US people heard about this, they wanted the same options. The US parent company and the UK company that I worked for at the time said this was unenforceable thanks to local employment law. Some employees took it to the ECHR but were told because it was a US parent company it wasn't covered by EC law. Maybe times have changed... but I doubt it.
Other firms where I've worked more recently have allowed smokers two ten minute breaks a day for cigarettes. No more. And that was only for people who smoked before the company was non smoking in all areas. New smokers who joined were expected to take in their nicotine intake during the lunch hour and did not get any extra breaks at all.
1. Have any of the non smokers here asked for the same entitlement and been refused?
2. Do the smokers actually take a fag break every half an hour? I ask because personally I don't know any smoker (myself included) who would take the liberty of a break this frequently (I personally work at least 6 hours a week over my contracted hours and so have no moral problem with taking up to 5 fve minute breaks during the course of a working day - more like one every two hours)
3. Have you complained to your Managers? If so, what was the response?
Well said milly!
Besides which, what exactly is stopping those moaning about smokers from having a 5 min break and chat at the coffee machine?
You could go out for fresh air breaks if you wanted and I'm sure nobody would mind.
funnywebsite, from your responses on this and another thread you make it out to sound like all smokers are insensitve b&stards who will intentionally blow smoke in others direction, don't put the same effort into their jobs as non smokers, and should be punished for having a different lifestyle choice to your own which simply isn't true!!
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