If a person has one cigarette break daily that adds to a week of annual leave. Should non-smokers claim it?
917053
It does seem discriminatory.  But if you suggest this your boss will more likely just cancel the cigarette breaks.  Then you won't be any better off and your co-workers will be worse off.\n\nSo I'd leave well enough alone - you knew how much leave to expect when you took the job
361543
Sounds like something you need to discuss with your doctor.  Your employer may require something from the doc stating your health does not prevent you from performing the job duties required  of you.
353816
No, you can only claim something that "helps" your career.  You could see if there is a subscription rate for seniors card holders.  Speak to their subscription department.
809010
No, because they didn't make anyone smoke!  If they were responsible for smokers health then McDonalds, Burger King, etc. should also be responsible.  Alcohol manufacturers would also have to be responsible, come to think of it, the sun should also be responsible for skin cancer victims!!  We need to stop this nonsense, people should be reponsible for what they do to themselves.
434903
sounds like homework.  I've never heard of an employer being forced to allow an employee to resign by law.  Now if you mean were you don't show up to work for X days without calling in and your employer considers it a resignation that's a bit different.  Again it's not really law, but a policy issue.  Also most states are at will and thus no reason must be given to have an employee leave.
854591
Absolutely!  Just because you are on 'leave' doesn't mean that you are not still covered by your insurance.
860188
It should be standard management policy that sick days be excused with a doctors note ect.\n\nI would not get involved in that side but I would bring it up during\nnext meeting ect as to how management does deal with calling in sick and people abusing sick policy.\n\nsome people will never grow up.\nsome need to be written up...\n\nhow can one get sick just before work always....\nnot during holidays..\nnot on weekends==\njust on mondays  fridays\n\npaydays..
97375
OMG!!! This is wayyyyyyyy too funny .......... I take it you have tried this and are still smoking this way???? \n\nHow many packs a day and where do you go for your smoke break since you can't smoke in a public restroom???\n\nI bet the other smokers around you really have something to talk about after break!!!!!
372829
Im not sure that it is prescribed in law but if it is then the norm of 20 seems a fair bet.  Of course some jobs such as teaching offer much greater holidays. I think I get about 13 weeks.
984239
Yes, since it is there home, they have every right to smoke, rather then the customer calling and complaining about you, maybe you should just ask for another job if they are smokers, let someone else take that job and you can take another one! Other than that i dont think its right that people pay for your services in there home and are told they cant smoke!!
215589
I think so. If your job test you and finds you positive, then you'd be put on leave until the problem was taken care of or fired. That is the profession they choose to be in, then that's their job and they need to be dealt with just like it was any other "regular" job.
1026142
No, the company does not have to pay you. Again with the first answerer, you should take a vacatoin before quitting so then you would technically not lose the time.
243369
Depends on the drug and the level of addiction, for sure.  As any smoker can tell you, some people smoke half a pack, while others smoke 2 or more packs each day!  Both are addicted.  Compare this to crack cocaine or heroin addicts, who use far less but become just as addicted.  It's easy to see how dangerous these drugs can be.\n\nMost addicts I have known used every day, at least once.  A severely addicted person cannot function without at least some residual trace of chemical in their system- the withdrawls set in almost immediately with many addictive street drugs.\n\nSomeone who uses once a week is probably not addicted to a drug at the physical level, but addiction is also measured by how it adversely affects your life in other ways.  If you work all week long at a minimum wage job just so you can smoke crack all day long on saturday, you have a serious problem.
676594
Realize that you have only one life to live, and you don't want to hurt the health of your body permanently by continuing to smoke, and understand and accept that quitting smoking now would still leave you with damage to your respiratory system but at least it is not too severe and you haven't developed cancer of the lungs or mouth, which will happen if you continue to smoke and once you have cancer it reduces your life-span.
763354
It depends on the number of pack years the person has been smoking. A pack year is defined as an entire year in which a person  smokes a pack of cigarettes per day. For example, a person who smokes a pack per day for two years has two pack years of smoking history. This is equal to a person who smokes half a pack for four years; and to one who smokes two packs per day for a year. Generally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD: chronic bronchitis and emphysema), which is the more common cause of death in smokers occurs at around 20 pack years.\n\nTo compute for your current pack year, divide the number of sticks you smoke in a day by 20. Then multiply this by the number of years you have been smoking. Example, if I have been smoking for 10 years averaging 15 sticks per day, that's (15sticks/20sticks)x10years = 7.5 pack years.
146576
They have to have a place for smokers that does not block an exit or interfer with non-smokers.  Check the state labor laws.
981491
One-time use usually shows up for 24-72 hours.  Habitual use can stay in your blood up to 2 months, according to the charts at my work.  I guess smoking it "occasionally" would fall somewhere in between.  Tobacco and alcohol will not show up because they don't test for them.