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Originally Posted by Skybird
Pen, you oversee the legal side here. Since 1st January, smoking is banned in many public places, official buildings, railway stations, hospitals, bars and restaurant. And in past years, according laws were implemented that cover the workplace as well. The non-smokers in that company simply had laws on their side that said that they must be given the opportuity to work in a smoke-free working place, floor, room, whatever.
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LOL well ok yes, for health reasons certainly they should not be forced into a smokey environment, I'll grant you that.... But knowing full well their boss was permitting his employees to smoke, and still working there knowing it... they may have had the law on their side... but heck, I think the boss has a point they would have caused him unnecessary grief. The decent thing all round would be for them to have not gone there in the first place rather than go there and then say "change it or we'll get the law on you." That's just my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
You also ignore the originator prnciple (again!   ) here. It's not that non.smokers actively cause an additonal effect at set it ffree to the environemnt that harms smokers. It is that smokers harm non smokers by setting additonal agents free into the living envrionment. If your neighbour behaves too loud, the recipe is not that you start to behave loud yourself to "oversond" him, but that he has to turn more silent. Eventually you can even sue him at court to fall in line with that reasonable demand. It is not different with smoking. |
Originator? Skybird, please use plain simple English... lol... English is not my first language either you know.
Well... Ive had my fun with smoking and thats it, out of my life now, but... truth is, you know... Im not going to rag on smokers and be a hypocrite to them. I can see clearly both sides of the argument.
My point is, if they knew in that workplace smoking was the norm... why go there in the first place just to cause waves later on?
Personally... I hope the boss wins this one. Because while there is blame on both sides, and I think the boss was right to dismiss them in that environment smokers were the majority therefore... the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few yah?