8.44.080 City workplaces and non-City office workplaces to adopt smoking policies.
A. Each non-City employer who operates a workplace in the City and the City shall, within three months of adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter, adopt, implement and maintain a written smoking policy which shall be conspicuously posted in all workplaces under the employer’s jurisdiction and which shall contain, at a minimum, the following provisions and requirements:
1. Any nonsmoking employee may object to his or her employer about smoke in his or her workplace. The employer shall attempt to reach reasonable accommodation, insofar as possible, between the preferences of nonsmoking and smoking employees. However, an employer is not required by this chapter to make any expenditures or structural changes to accommodate the preferences of nonsmoking and smoking employees.
2. If an accommodation which is satisfactory to all affected nonsmoking employees cannot be reached in any given office workplace, the preferences of nonsmoking employees shall prevail and the employer shall prohibit smoking in the workplace of the affected nonsmoking employees to the end that those employees may work in a smoke-free environment. Where the employer prohibits smoking in a non-City office workplace, the area in which smoking is prohibited shall be clearly marked with signs.
B. The smoking policy shall be announced within three weeks of adoption to all employees working in non-City office workplaces in the City workplaces as defined in LMC 8.44.010. The policy shall be posted conspicuously in all workplaces under the employer’s or official’s jurisdiction. [Ord. 43 § 1, 1996.]