Smoking Breaks

Employees may smoke away from the boundaries of the Council premises, subject to the operational needs of their business area.  Employees who do smoke must not be identifiable by identity badge or uniform displaying any Council logo or wording.  Employees are also discouraged from smoking in view of visitor areas, offices, meeting rooms, and any school or nursery facility.  Employees taking smoking breaks will do so in their own time and records for such breaks must be kept in accordance with locally determined time/flexi-time recording arrangements.  Employees on flexitime may only smoke during non-core hours and must record the time taken as non-work time. Other employees may only smoke during designated break times.

Failure to comply with these recording requirements will lead to disciplinary action being taken.

For details of the council’s flexi-time scheme refer to The Source (shared intranet).