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Company makes smoking employees work longer hours
A company in Carinthia, Austria is making its smoking employees work longer hours. The car supplier, Mahle are demanding that smokers sign in and out of their cigarette breaks and make the time up at the end of the day.
The company reportedly loses around one million Euros every year as a result of the regular smoking breaks taken by their employees. Those who go to smoke outside of the official break time are now checked in and out of the building.
"Legally these rules are rarely upheld. Non-smoker protection is important but it must be legal. If the boss from Mahle has time to come up with such ideas then perhaps he should extend his work hours," said Karl Proyer from the Austrian trades union.
A couple of the 2,700 employees at Mahle have terminated their contract with the company but the vast majority of the board and staff, smokers and non-smokers, accept the new rules.
Austrian Times
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Izbaste Mihai wrote on 29. 01. 2012 from Arad Romania about "Company makes smoking emp..."
Yes, and heavy smokers do not work as well as a nonsmoker, theyr mind is on smoking all the time and can't wait the next cigar, thinking on the next cigar break instead on the work. I wuld not employ smokers at all in my company.
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Glen Sweeney wrote on 24. 01. 2012 from Wien about "Company makes smoking emp..."
I could not agree more, do the maths: 1 cig. per hour, allowing for 10 minutes per, equates to 6.6 hours per week, add lunch and legitimate breaks to that and it is a full working day. It means that smokers are only working a four day week, so why should they be allowed to do this, and why are the unions nor representing the non-smokers in this issue,i.e. the people who are working a full week?
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