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If Smokers Get Breaks, How About Extra Leave For Non-Smokers?
As the federal Health Department prepares to ban staff smoking during work hours or when representing the department, Quit Victoria, a nonpofit, says workplaces should consider offering phone breaks to ring the Quitline in place of smoking breaks.
''We're constantly hearing from non-smokers in the workplace about this issue, with smokers having more free time or more breaks, more time off, and does that add up to an extra week's leave a year,'' Quit executive director Fiona Sharkie said
''We'd encourage workplaces to say to their smokers, look - instead of taking the time off to go and smoke, we'd like to give you time to ring the Quitline.''
The routine of going outside for a cigarette could also be replaced with changing a task at work, or having a piece of fruit, she said. ''We know that resentment does exist in the workplace with other workers, with taking breaks. But perhaps if it was in such a way as to assist people to quit, there would be less resentment.''
She also said health and social services workers, such as mental health or youth workers, often smoked with clients, as a means of bonding with them.
Quit itself does not employ smokers. All its job descriptions state that the person must be a non-smoker.
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