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What do you think? Smoking/Job
My friend was faced with this problem... what do you all think??? .... Should employers have the right to restrict or ban smoking by employees off the job?
Re: What do you think? Smoking/Job
Maybe not ban, but restrict. It's frustrating when a team member gets up 3 times an hour to take a smoke break and things get put on hold while everyone else waits.
No disrespect, but I can't stand the smell of smoke, so when the person come back from the smoke break I'm distracted by trying not to cough or make weird faces.
Off of the job? No. Employers can require them to pay higher insurance premiums if they smoke off of the jobs, but they shouldn't be able to absolutely forbid it.
On the job? Sure. There are lots of places around here that won't allow smoking anywhere on the premises.
Employers can prohibit new employees from smoking by mandating nicotine tests at time of hire.
See Cleveland Clinic and various other hospitals.
I'm fine with it for private companies.
ETA: to clarify, I mean these companies legally do NOT hire smokers:
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/tobacco/a_message_about_smoking.aspx
"any applicant who fails the nicotine screening will be referred to a free tobacco cessation program that we pay for. Those who are successful in quitting will be encouraged to reapply after 90 days."
and
"In addition, President and CEO Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, and Cleveland Clinic?s leaders stopped hiring tobacco users; made smoking cessation programs free to current employees; and, in January 2007, began offering free smoking cessation programs to residents of Cuyahoga County. In four years, the county?s smoking rate dropped from 28 percent to 18 percent. ?I may have saved, by that decision, more lives than I did in 30 years as a heart surgeon,? Dr. Cosgrove told an interviewer on National Public Radio in September 2009."
I don't think they can restrict it off the job.
That being said, I do think it is ok to require that work clothing be kept in a smoke-free environment especially if the employee works in healthcare.
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Legally you can not hire people because they smoke because smoking is not a legally protected activity. I can also not hire people because they have a 2nd job - worked for my brother who I don't like, etc.
I don't think a company should restrict everything I do because I don't smoke but I do enjoy a cocktail with dinner. But, I also don't want to pay higher premiums on my insurance because you want to smoke.