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Carefully read the following paragraph and provide your answer to each question. Minimum length for each answer is 10 lines. (You must type your answer here) There is a considerable evidence showing that smokers are less productive than non-smokers. Costs to organizations, besides those related to the medical care, health and life insurance, include absenteeism and loss of on-the-job time. Estimate place time loss per day due to smoking at 35 minutes a day, or 18,2 lost days per year per employee who smokes. In addition, smokers are absent, on average, three more days than other employees. Estimates place the cost of smoking to an employer at around $4500 per smoker per year. These data suggest that it is an employers best interest to hire only non-smokers or to fire smokers who cannot overcome their addiction.

Q1. Would such policies, of hiring only nonsmokers and firing smokers, be acceptable under human rights legislation in your province or territory?

Q2: Are smokers a "protected" group under human rights legislation?

Q3: How would you defend these policies to an investigator from a human rights commission?