Timeline for Can I get in trouble for smoking on a video call while working from home?
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 6:38 | comment | added | nvoigt♦ | @luk32 Whether an employer can or can not prohibit smoking when the employee is not on the job and not on their property (whether that's on the weekend or they just went to grab something from a food truck in their lunch break or because the meeting ended and the employee forgot to turn of the camera on their break) is certainly up to a lot of different laws and it probably would be an interesting case. This is the OP smoking at their designated workplace on company time. There is no wiggle room in this specific case. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 20:21 | comment | added | luk32 | Fair enough. But it's not so straight. My quick research says there are state level rights to privacy at the work place. They technically allow you to smoke on breaks, which might still be paid, obviously not on work time, but that's because you either are on non-smoking premise or not working which doesn't seem to happen here. I hope we can agree it's interesting law case, that might be tried soon since the massive increase in remote/home work. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 19:58 | comment | added | nvoigt♦ | Feel free to find the applicable law and/or maybe a case in which the employer lost trying to ban smoking on company time. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 19:52 | comment | added | luk32 | Is this true that you can get reprimanded for no valid reason? It's true that a worker can be fired for no reason in "at-will jurisdiction" but making their life miserable and creating hostile working environment, especially in one's home, might still not be legal. | |
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| May 27, 2020 at 18:33 | history | answered | nvoigt♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |