Smoking at work: Boss from Neustadt gives non-smokers a vacation

The boss of a country inn in Rhineland-Palatinate ended the annoyance about smoking breaks in his business with additional vacation days.

• An inn manager gives non-smokers five

  vacation days

  per year

  in his business

  .

• The

  smoking breaks

  in the company could be extrapolated to 8 to 15 days off per year.

• Smokers are still allowed to take

  cigarette

  breaks.

Neustadt - Smoking breaks are part of everyday life in most companies.

Colleagues leave the office every hour to smoke a cigarette.

This break is denied to non-smokers.

A disadvantage that the boss of the Landgasthof Jägerstübchen no longer wants to tolerate.

Non-smokers get five days of free vacation in an inn in Neustadt

In the inn in

Hambach (Rhineland-Palatinate),

receive compensation in the

future

.

Previously, the regular

led to

among colleagues.

For this reason, the owner of the inn decided

to give

five

per year.

“We are tolerant in our company.

The

don't have to stick out, ”said the inn manager Helmut Glas to RTL.

After the

among

and

increased, inn manager Helmut Glas calculated how much time his employees spend smoking per working day.

The result: An employee who

spends 8 to 15 working days a year during the

and not at work.

So Glas came up with the idea of

giving

additional

.

Who smokes how much?

Positive response in Neustadt: The non-smoking holiday is well received by the employees

Since the new holiday regulations came into force, there has been a positive working atmosphere again at Gasthof Jägerstübchen in

.

Disputes about

at work are a

past.

Some

in the company are said to have decided to become

.

The head of the country inn is

also

largely satisfied

with his decision

to give

five additional days of

year

.

“This is a solution that is good for our company, I don't know whether it will work for other companies,” says Helmut Glas.

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Can the employer ban smoking in the workplace?

In principle, the employer has the right

to ban

the workplace.

The

can

make use

of his right of

for

this purpose

: According to §106 trade regulations, it is possible for him

to instruct

the

at his discretion.

He decides how the

behave in his company, provided that this does not contradict other contractual agreements.

Important: The

must first consult the works council and

negotiate

a works agreement on the

.

In order to

a

, the employer can refer to the protection of

.

According to the workplace ordinance, the

must

guarantee

the safety and health protection of his

.

This means that

should not be exposed to the dangers of passive smoking.

Does the smoking break count towards working hours?

Smokers

are not entitled to a paid

.

So the cigarette is not part of working hours for in between.

In companies with so-called “trust-based working hours”, the smoking break is difficult to deduct from working hours.

After all, there are no official records of working hours and employees can organize their working hours freely.

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