While the European Commission recently launched consultation of the social partners on second-hand smoke (see our dispatch No. 090028), the Supreme Court of the Netherlands decided, on January 12, 2009, that a former clinic employee, aged 45, should receive compensation for her asthma worsened by her exposure to smoke. For two years, in 1999 and 2000, she was the secretary of two medical specialists, who were also heavy smokers. (Ref. 090078)
Because the
clinic accepted the fact that these two specialists smoked on their workplace
without installing special ventilation, it has to pay.
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