{"id":2833,"date":"2017-11-30T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T07:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloglaboral.garrigues.com?p=2833"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:49:54","slug":"more-vacation-for-giving-up-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloglaboral.garrigues.com\/en\/more-vacation-for-giving-up-smoking","title":{"rendered":"More vacation for giving up smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smoking at the workplace except in open-air spaces was banned among the measures in Law 28\/2005,<\/a> of December 26, 2005 on anti-smoking health measures and on the sale, supply, use and advertising of tobacco products, known as the Anti-Smoking Law<\/strong>, which came into force on January 1, 2006.<\/p>\n

As might be expected, this ban changed the habits of many employees, who, after being allowed to smoke at their workspaces, started having to leave them to go outside every time they wanted a cigarette.<\/p>\n

Although many companies, principally in manufacturing industries that measure and monitor their employees\u2019 working times,<\/strong> put in place, if they had not already done so, a ban on smoking outside the scheduled break times, the truth is that at a great many companies no such monitoring exists and workers go out for a smoke as often (and for as long) as each smoker worker chooses.<\/p>\n

Far from being exclusive to our neighboring countries, these practices are present at companies throughout the world, and amount to a detrimental factor for worker productivity and business competitiveness.<\/p>\n

So, despite the cultural and labor law differences, we wanted to highlight the measure <\/a>adopted recently by a Japanese company to<\/p>\n