In the UK, smoke-free legislation provides that most workplaces must be smoke free.
Employers should review their policies and practices on a regular basis, to ensure that they are complying with the legislation, including for example in relation to their vehicles and employees who work remotely.
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Employers’ organisations have spoken out against guidance recommending that smokers should be given paid time off work to help them...
UK businesses are not fully prepared for the new smoking ban legislation which comes into force on 1 July, new...
Smokers should be given paid time off work to help them kick the habit, new public health guidance has recommended....
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Wales and Northern Ireland have now joined Scotland and the Republic of Ireland in implementing smoking bans in workplaces and...
Pub workers in Ireland are healthier as a result of a ban on smoking in workplaces, imposed in 2004, research...
Smokers take an average of eight days’ more sick leave a year than their non-smoking colleagues, research published in the...
Employers have been urged to get their act together and introduce smoking bans into their shops, factories, offices, restaurants and...
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Government departments in Whitehall have been ‘named and shamed’ by Westminster Council because of smoking staff filling the streets with...
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If you or any of your team are one of the UK’s 12 million adults who smoke, did you know...
Staff at Warwickshire County Council who want to quit smoking are being offered help and advice from other staff members, some...
Pub chain Greene King has launched a campaign to encourage its 16,000 workers to give up smoking in preparation for...
