Cigarette break during working hours, okay - but what about the nonsmokers?
A boss from Rhineland-Palatinate had an idea so that employees would not feel disadvantaged.
A dispute about
smoking breaks
during
working hours
* has apparently prompted a boss in Rhineland-Palatinate to find a new regulation for his employees.
Because there has always been trouble between smokers and non-smokers in his company, the restaurant owner has come up with something special, reported RTL: Every employee who does not have to take a smoking break during working hours gets
five extra vacation days a
year, so the idea.
The other employees are likely to continue their
cigarette
break, according to the report on the regulation found.
However, they would then have to forego the additional leave.
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The boss has an idea: non-smoking vacation for employees
“We are tolerant in our company.
The smokers don't have to outdo ", quoted RTL.de the restaurant manager in the article. He then extrapolated - and came to eight to 15 working days per person a year that his smoking employees
would spend
with their
cigarettes
and not at
work
. writes the portal.
With the five days of additional leave, the boss wanted to create a fair balance.
The
report also says that the
non-smoking holiday is
well received by the employees - some have even decided to become non-smokers.
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Occupational Safety and Health Act: Regulations and requirements for breaks
Basically, the
rules and specifications for breaks
from the Occupational Safety and Health Act are designed by the experts at Karrierbibel.de for employees as follows:
According to the Working
Hours
Act, employees are entitled to a 30-minute break
when they work
six hours
.
At
nine hours
, the break is extended to 45 minutes.
The Working Hours Act stipulates that the breaks
can be divided
into sections of
at least 15 minutes
.
Employees are not allowed to
work
“longer than
six hours without a break”
, says Karrierbibel.de.
How the break times are ultimately taken, "whether in one piece or split", depends on the
employer and the local conditions
, writes the portal.
There are many areas in which the break times are divided up “in shifts”, “to ensure that employees can serve customers”.
For example, a "shift regulation for the break such as from 12 to 12.30 p.m. lunch break for the first group, from 12.30 p.m. to 1 p.m. lunch break for the second group" is possible.
These
regulations
would be coordinated
"with the works council
or staff council", it says on Karrierebibel.de
Sources: RTL.de; Karrierbibel.de
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