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- Title: Smoking in the Workplace in South Africa: Law and Practice Relating to the Rights and Obligations of Employers and Employees (Report)
- Author : South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 290 KB
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South Africans have a high prevalence of smoking. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa, there are 7 million smokers in South Africa, of whom 80% have tried to give up smoking at least once, 90% began to smoke before the age of 18, and 20% began to smoke before the age of 10. (1) The preamble to the Tobacco Products Control Act (as amended by the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act, Act No. 63 of 2008), (2) which regulates the production, marketing, advertising, selling and smoking of tobacco products in public places, acknowledges that tobacco use 'is extremely injurious to the health of smokers, non-smokers and other users of tobacco products'; 'has caused widespread addiction in society'; and 'warrants, in the public interest, a restrictive legislation'. One of the objectives of the Tobacco Products Control Act (the Act) is to regulate the circumstances under which tobacco products can be used in public places, including workplaces. The Act makes smoking in a public place an offence and obliges employers who permit smoking in the workplace to provide designated smoking areas. However, the Act also empowers employers to ban smoking totally in the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the provisions and regulations relating to smoking in workplaces and to discuss the reported cases in which the bargaining council arbitrator has dealt with the issue of employers' and employees' rights and obligations in this situation. Law relating to smoking in the workplace
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