Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks

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Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
Company based on 29th floor of Tokyo office block says every break lasts at least 15 minutes
Chloe Farand 4 hours ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japanese-firm-piala-inc-tokyo-non-smokers-extra-six-days-holiday-cigarette-break-a8028541.html

A Japanese company is granting its non-smoking staff an additional six days of holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks.

Marketing firm Piala Inc introduced the new paid leave allowance in September after non-smokers complained they were working more than their colleagues who smoked.

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[Frank Cannon]

But the proposal is likely to encounter strong opposition from pro-smoking politicians, restaurateurs and cigarette manufacturing giant Japan Tobacco, which is one third government-owned and paid the state $700m in dividends in 2015.

Well considering how screwed up Abe has the economy, there is no way in hell they are ever giving up that smoking money.

[Cyber Liberty]

Here in the savage US, everybody gets breaks whether they smoke or not, it's the law in many places.  If the non-smokers are working without breaks, that's where I'd fix things if I were the Japs.