Passive Smoking

[Phanerothyme]

Originally posted by slimsid2000

Often it is a choice made by the Employment Department who have many rules about 'Actively Seeking Work' and not refusing jobs. A person could loose their benefit if they refuse to work in a smokey bar. Not wanting to be exposed to passive smoking is not considered a good enough reason to refuse a job.

Yes it is -

You can refuse a Notified Vacancy with "Good Cause" if you refuse:

 

To be a scab provided that the specific vacancy is one caused by the dispute.

 

On religious or conscientious grounds, which can include:

 

Objecting to not being a member of a trade union in a work place where non membership is a condition of employment

 

Objecting to work with material which may be used for the destruction of human life

 

Working in abattoirs etc.

 

On health grounds eg. "excessive physical or mental stress"

 

Due to excessive travelling time to work (more than one hour each way)

 

If the job's hours and days of working differ significantly from those set out in your Job Seekers Agreement.

 

You can't refuse to apply for a job because it is badly paid!!

 

Them's the rules - stand your ground if you are told otherwise. (although YMMV)

[Killian]

Originally posted by Yorkie

Breathing Apparatus.

 

not organised torture then?

[JoeP]

I've never smoked in my life but have had numerous friends who do smoke. They wouldn't smoke in my house, I wouldn't expect them NOT to smoke in their own house and if we go to a pub then I view it as an occupational hazard.

 

I draw the line in restaurants - I hate it when someone nearby smokes while I'm eating.

 

My father smoked, my mum smoked until she was pregnant with me. Many of my relatives smoked as a child (1960s and 1970s) and I believe that one possible health condition I may have to look out in years to come might have a relationship to exposure to carcinogens from smoke as a child.

 

HOWEVER....we all drive our cars which vent all sorts of stuff. We get 10u particulates from diesel engines (busses, trains, taxis) and we dump enough crap in the air, food and water to give rise to various environmental issues. And large numbers of us wander around with UHF / low microwave radio transmitters (mobile phones) zapping us and our surrounding commuters every day.

 

Smoking may be the obvious starting point, but once the 'thin end of the wedge' is pushed in I wonder how long it will be before we start seeing bans on mobiles round children, etc.?

 

Joe, who may or may not be playing devil's advocate!

[Yorkie]

Originally posted by JoePritchard

 

 

I've never smoked in my life.

 

 

 

Congratulations !

 

 

Your reward is a longer, happier, healthier life and a more powerful, satisfying, stimulating sex drive.

 

 

You will not require Viagra.

 

 

. . . not to mention the thousands of pounds you've saved.

[Yorkie]

Originally posted by Killian

 

 

 

Not organised torture then?

 

 

 

LOL no need - smokers torture themselves

[Tony]

Originally posted by JoePritchard

if we go to a pub then I view it as an occupational hazard.

You got it in one Joe! You just missed the point that the people who suffer most from passive smoking are the workers in pubs not the visitors.

 

Surely they deserve a smoke free workplace?

[floyd77]

I hear Oil rigs are quite dangerous places to work too, along with many other places and occupations - should we ban oil too.

[max]

Originally posted by floyd77

I hear Oil rigs are quite dangerous places to work too, along with many other places and occupations - should we ban oil too.

 

Find me a brick wall someone.

[Sidla]

Does anyone here work in a bar or know someone who works in a bar? If so, does the smoke bother you/them?

[t020]

Originally posted by Sidla

Does anyone here work in a bar or know someone who works in a bar? If so, does the smoke bother you/them?

 

 

If it bothered them enough they could always not work there.