With a view of protecting employees from passive smoke, the new law, which came into effect on August 15, forbids smoking on workplaces, but allows cigarettes when there is no risk of passive smoking. However, the smoker does not have a positive image within the company. Minutes spent smoking are timed, adverts ask for non-smokers, who also enjoy wage benefits : this type of measures is becoming widespread even though trade unions threaten to act against what they call discrimination. (Ref. 070708)
The new law prohibits smoking on workplaces but nonetheless opens a derogation when special dispensations to avoid passive smoking are respected. Thus, it allows cigarettes in a space occupied by one person at a time, in a room fitted out as a “smoking-room”, or even in a cabin especially dedicated to that purpose.
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