{"id":540816,"date":"2010-04-22T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.76573"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:31:05","slug":"smoking-could-be-banned-in-all-business-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540816","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Could Be Banned in All Business Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate passed, 24-11, a bill that would ban smoking in the workplace regardless of the number of employees.<\/p>\n<p>Current law, prohibits smoking at business facilities with five or more employees. <\/p>\n<p>The bill applies to a self-employed individual, even if they do not have an employee. It does not apply to someone who runs a business out of their home. It does, however,&nbsp;allow for employers to designate one or more smoking rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The House still needs to be vote on the bill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate passed, 24-11, a bill that would ban smoking in the workplace regardless of the number of employees. Current law, prohibits smoking at business facilities with five or more employees. The bill applies to a self-employed individual, even if they do not have an employee. It does not apply to someone who runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}